radiation
radiation is a 9-letter English word with 9 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of radiating, or the state of being radiated; emission and diffusion of rays of light; beamy brightness. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The act of radiating, or the state of being radiated; emission and diffusion of rays of light; beamy brightness.
- noun. The shooting forth of anything from a point or surface, like the diverging rays of light; as, the radiation of heat.
- noun. (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance
- noun. the act of spreading outward from a central source
- noun. a radial arrangement of nerve fibers connecting different parts of the brain
- noun. the spread of a group of organisms into new habitats
- noun. energy that is radiated or transmitted in the form of rays or waves or particles
- noun. the spontaneous emission of a stream of particles or electromagnetic rays in nuclear decay
- noun. syndrome resulting from exposure to ionizing radiation (e.g., exposure to radioactive chemicals or to nuclear explosions); low doses cause diarrhea and nausea and vomiting and sometimes loss of hair; greater exposure can cause sterility and cataracts and some forms of cancer and other diseases; severe exposure can cause death within hours
"he was suffering from radiation"
Synonyms
actinotherapy, irradiation, radiotherapy, radioactivity
Common word forms
radiations, radiational, radiationless
Words from these letters
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