irradiation

irradiation has 10 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 11.

Definitions

• n.. Act of irradiating, or state of being irradiated.
• n.. Illumination; irradiance; brilliancy.
• n.. Fig.: Mental light or illumination.
• n.. 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.
• n.. (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance
• n.. (Pavolvian conditioning) the elicitation of a conditioned response by stimulation similar but not identical to the original stimulus
• n.. the apparent enlargement of a bright object when viewed against a dark background
• n.. (physiology) the spread of sensory neural impulses in the cortex
• n.. a column of light (as from a beacon)
• n.. the condition of being exposed to radiation