uv
/jˈuvˈi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.63 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
2
Letters
2
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
noun
The axes of a two-dimensional texture, as opposed to those (X, Y, Z) of the three-dimensional model to which it is applied.
Countable; Uncountable
prep
Eye dialect spelling of of.
Example Sentences
- "Chemical ingredients — such as avobenzone, oxybenzone and homosalate — absorb the UV rays. Both types of sunscreen can degrade or wash off over time, so it’s important to reapply every two hours, and more frequently if you’re swimming or sweating."
- "UV mapping; UV coordinates; UV texturing"
- "That gives them an advantage over their better-known peers, the Invisible Scratch Pickles: on the recent single "Invisbl Skratch Piklz vs. da Klamz uv Deth" the San Franciscans can spin heads with their superathletic scratching, but the side-length cut doesn't hold up as a piece of music."
- "On the scale of linguistic complexity, basic leet is about on a par with pig Latin, and with five minutes' practice just about anyone can crank out elegant prose such as: y c@N' p30p13 R3kO9nIZ3 eh 834UTy uv 1337???"