radiation

[ˌreɪdiˈeɪʃn]

Definition:
1. Powerful and very dangerous rays that are sent out from radioactive substances.
2. Heat, energy, etc. that is sent out in the form of rays.
3. The act of spreading outward from a central source.

Use 'radiation' in a sentence:

1. The radiation can damage microprocessors and computer memories, causing them to malfunction.
2. Low thick clouds are not transparent to radiation.
3. But radiation as a general term actually refers to anything that spreads away from its source.
4. Her hair started falling out as a result of radiation treatment.
5. I thought being exposed to radiation is dangerous.
6. Symptoms usually subside after completion of radiation therapy.
7. More infrared radiation would be absorbed and reradiated back to the Earth's surface.
8. Is surgery, radiation or careful monitoring best for prostate cancer?
9. The resulting radiation is known as airglow.
10. So what is an acceptable level of radiation?
11. If you are talking about radiation, like in the element Uranium, yeah, that's dangerous.
12. We call this Earth's radiation budget.
13. What we are seeing from earth is actually electromagnetic radiation that's coming from stars.
14. A great deal is now known about the kinds of damage produced in the DNA by ultraviolet radiations, to a lesser extent, by ionizing radiations.
15. She insists that it's exposing workers to unnecessarily high doses of radiation.
16. The most terrifying aspect of nuclear bombing is radiation.
17. The star grew 30% brighter and threw off huge amounts of radiation.
18. Conduction, Convection and radiation can bring heat influxes.
19. Infrared radiation has wavelengths longer than those of visible light.
20. Radiowaves are electromagnetic radiation that we can't see.
21. She is suffering from radiation burns.
22. The reproduction and growth of the cancerous cells can be suppressed by bombarding them with radiation.
23. If the cancer returns, radiation therapy is successful in 90 per cent of cases.
24. He reacted very badly to the radiation therapy.
25. The material is stored in a special radiation proof container.
26. More than 930 local people are registered as suffering from radiation sickness.
27. The thermal radiation of shorter wavelengths than the visible are called ultraviolet.
28. Their cancers are not so clearly tied to radiation exposure.
29. Anything from cosmic rays to radiation to diet may activate a dormant oncogene.
30. This article focuses on radiation present in the earth crust.
31. Proposal of a function for modelling the hourly frequency distributions of photosynthetically active radiation.
32. Optical radiation is just visible light energy spreading out.
33. Unfortunately, electronic switches that are this small cannot withstand intense radiation.
34. The whole universe was a super hot soup of radiation filled with these particles.
35. The satellite will study energy radiation from stars.
36. The $617 million satellite will study energy radiation from the most violent stars in the universe.
37. They suffer from health problems and fear the long term effects of radiation.
38. But I'm more afraid to expose my unborn child to the radiation.
39. Radiation may damage cells in a way that was previously unforeseen.
40. His treatment was a combination of surgery, radiation and drugs.
41. Within a half-mile from ground zero, death from radiation poisoning will occur within twelve hours.
42. Ozone is the earth's barrier against ultra-violet radiation.
43. Sunlight consists of different wavelengths of radiation.
44. The radiation radius of the radioactive radium radiator in the stadium is variable.
45. High thin clouds are very transparent to solar radiation, like clear air.
46. The sun's radiation penetrates the skin.
47. The material can absorb outward-going radiation from the earth.
48. This system continuously monitors levels of radiation and relays the information to a central computer.
49. Workers at the nuclear plant were exposed to high doses of radiation.