UV

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does UV mean? 

• UV (noun)
  The noun UV has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: UV used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UV (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 ("UV" is a kind of...):

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

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

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

 Context examples 

In the new experiment, adding UV light to the hot chemical mix did the trick.

(Cooking up Alien Atmospheres on Earth, NASA)

The ERCC1 gene is involved in UV cross-link repair and nucleotide excision repair (NER).

(DNA Excision Repair Protein ERCC-1, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers then compared the light chemistry to the dark chemistry against the UV light of different stars.

(Scientists identify exoplanets where life could develop as it did on Earth, University of Cambridge)

The upper part of a mouse’s visual field holds blue/UV cones and the lower part has green cones.

(New color vision pathway unveiled, NIH)

The formation of a stratosphere layer in a planet’s atmosphere is attributed to sunscreen-like molecules, which absorb UV and visible radiation coming from the star and then release that energy as heat.

(WASP-18b Has Smothering Stratosphere Without Water, NASA)

DNA damage may be caused by normal cell actions, UV light, some anticancer drugs, and radiation used to treat cancer.

(ABT-888, NCI Dictionary)

About 5 to 10 times more neutral particles could be lost through a process called photochemical escape, which happens when UV radiation breaks apart molecules in the upper atmosphere.

(Mars Mission Sheds Light on Habitability of Distant Planets, NASA)

This process excites dissolved metals, thereby causing them to emit radiation in both the UV and visible spectrum.

(Inductively-Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer, NCI Thesaurus)

An organic acid with UV absorption and antifibrotic properties.

(Aminobenzoic acid, NCI Thesaurus)

Avobenzone is a topical, broad range UV protector and blocks UVA I, UVA II, and UVB wavelengths, thereby limiting the impact of UV rays on skin.

(Avobenzone, NCI Thesaurus)