EGAVE

ultraviolet

About 3.47 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Of electromagnetic radiation beyond (higher in frequency than) light visible to the human eye; radiation with wavelengths from 380 to 10 nanometres.
  2. adjective Relating to very high energies or very small distances or time spans.
  3. noun Ultraviolet colour.

Similar words

ultraviolet radiation ultraviolet light uv invisible unseeable ultraviolet illumination radiation fingerprint uv-b footprint

Often followed by

light radiation rays and absorption irradiation region spectrum spectra

Word family

ultraviolets

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