Radiation

Quick meaning: Radiation is a noun meaning The shooting forth of anything from a point or surface, like diverging rays of light.

Meaning

The shooting forth of anything from a point or surface, like diverging rays of light.

More Meanings

1. The process of radiating waves or particles.
2. The transfer of energy via radiation.
3. Radioactive energy.
4. (evolutionary theory, countable) A rapid diversification of an ancestral species into many new forms.

Example Sentences

The radiation of love from the crowd was addictive to the young singer-songwriters.

It's Christmas at ground zero / And if the radiation level's OK / I'll go out with you / To see all the new / Mutations on New Year's Day

The second [canid group] is the radiation of dogs in South America that began when the first canids arrived about 3 Ma, after crossing the Panama land bridge (Fig. 5.4).

So the question is: have plants and animals retained over this huge amount of time—whole radiations of mammals have come and gone in this period—have they retained these potentially costly characteristics?

Word Forms

• radiations

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include radioactivity, light, radiological, x-ray, ultraviolet, atomic.

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