radiation
/ˌɹeɪ.diˈeɪ.ʃən/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.27 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The shooting forth of anything from a point or surface, like diverging rays of light.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The radiation of love from the crowd was addictive to the young singer-songwriters."
- "heat radiation"
- "It's Christmas at ground zero / And if the radiation level's OK / I'll go out with you / To see all the new / Mutations on New Year's Day"
- "So the question is: have plants and animals retained over this huge amount of time—whole radiations of mammals have come and gone in this period—have they retained these potentially costly characteristics?"
- "The second [canid group] is the radiation of dogs in South America that began when the first canids arrived about 3 Ma, after crossing the Panama land bridge (Fig. 5.4)."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: radiatio
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌɹeɪ.diˈeɪ.ʃən/
- British English: /ˌɹeɪ.diˈeɪ.ʃən/