ULTRAVIOLET ILLUMINATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ultraviolet illumination mean? 

• ULTRAVIOLET ILLUMINATION (noun)
  The noun ULTRAVIOLET ILLUMINATION has 1 sense:

1. radiation lying in the ultraviolet range; wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X rays

  Familiarity information: ULTRAVIOLET ILLUMINATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ULTRAVIOLET ILLUMINATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Radiation lying in the ultraviolet range; wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X rays

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

ultraviolet; ultraviolet illumination; ultraviolet light; ultraviolet radiation; UV

Hypernyms ("ultraviolet illumination" is a kind of...):

actinic radiation; actinic ray (electromagnetic radiation that can produce photochemical reactions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ultraviolet illumination"):

sun-ray; sunray (a ray of artificial ultraviolet light from a sunray lamp)