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

Definitions

1. noun. Act of irradiating, or state of being irradiated.
2. noun. Illumination; irradiance; brilliancy.
3. noun. Fig.: Mental light or illumination.
4. noun. 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.
5. noun. (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance

   Synonyms: actinotherapy, radiation, radiotherapy

6. noun. (Pavolvian conditioning) the elicitation of a conditioned response by stimulation similar but not identical to the original stimulus
7. noun. the apparent enlargement of a bright object when viewed against a dark background
8. noun. (physiology) the spread of sensory neural impulses in the cortex
9. noun. a column of light (as from a beacon)

   Synonyms: beam, ray, shaft

10. noun. the condition of being exposed to radiation

Synonyms

actinotherapy, radiation, radiotherapy, beam, ray, shaft

Common word forms

irradiations

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