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irradiation
irradiation is a 11-letter English word with 10 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Act of irradiating, or state of being irradiated. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 10 senses
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- 1noun
Act of irradiating, or state of being irradiated.
- 2noun
Illumination; irradiance; brilliancy.
- 3noun
Fig.: Mental light or illumination.
- 4noun
The apparent enlargement of a bright object seen upon a dark ground, due to the fact that the portions of the retina around the image are stimulated by the intense light; as when a dark spot on a white ground appears smaller, or a white spot on a dark ground larger, than it really is, esp. when a little out of focus.
- 5noun
(medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance
- 6noun
(Pavolvian conditioning) the elicitation of a conditioned response by stimulation similar but not identical to the original stimulus
- 7noun
the apparent enlargement of a bright object when viewed against a dark background
- 8noun
(physiology) the spread of sensory neural impulses in the cortex
- 9noun
a column of light (as from a beacon)
- 10noun
the condition of being exposed to radiation
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