radiation

radiation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin radiatio, radiationis. By surface analysis, radiate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹeɪ.di.ˈeɪ.ʃən/

• Audio (Berkshire)

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• (some US dialects) IPA^(key): /ɹaɪ.di.ˈaɪ.ʃən/
• (some Ghanaian speakers) IPA^(key): /ɹæ.di.ˈeɪ.ʃən/

Noun

radiation (countable and uncountable, plural radiations)

1. The shooting forth of anything from a point or surface, like diverging rays of light.

   heat radiation

2. The process of radiating waves or particles.
3. The transfer of energy via radiation.

   Coordinate terms: convection, conduction

4. Radioactive energy.
   • 1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic (lyrics and music), “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party!‎:

     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

5. (evolutionary theory, countable) A rapid diversification of an ancestral species into many new forms.
   • 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 8, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:

     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?

   • 2016, Donald R. Prothero, The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals (page 136)

     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).

Derived terms

• background radiation
• electromagnetic radiation
• infrared radiation
• ionizing radiation
• radiation belt
• thermal radiation
• Van Allen radiation belt

 

Related terms

• radiate

Translations

shooting forth of anything from a point or surface

Albanian: rrezatim (sq) m Arabic: إِشْعَاع‎ m (ʔišʕāʕ) Armenian: ճառագայթում (hy) (čaṙagaytʿum) Belarusian: выпрамяне́нне n (vypramjanjénnje) Catalan: radiació (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 放射 (zh) (fàngshè), 輻射／辐射 (zh) (fúshè) Finnish: säteily (fi) French: radiation (fr) f Georgian: გამოსხივება (gamosxiveba), სხივთფენა (sxivtpena) German: Strahlung (de) f Hungarian: radiáció, sugárzás (hu), kisugárzás (hu) Indonesian: radiasi (id) Japanese: 放射 (ja) (ほうしゃ, hōsha), 輻射 (ja) (ふくしゃ, fukusha) Korean: 방사(放射) (ko) (bangsa), 폭사(輻射) (ko) (poksa) Maori: whitinga, tūhekenga (Such as evolution from a common source) Norwegian: Bokmål: utstråling m or f Persian: تابش‎ (fa) (tâbeš) Polish: promieniowanie (pl) n Portuguese: irradiação (pt) f, radiação (pt) f Romanian: radiație (ro) f Russian: излуче́ние (ru) n (izlučénije) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: радија́ција f, зра́че̄ње n Roman: radijácija (sh) f, zráčēnje (sh) n Slovene: sévanje (sl) n, žárčenje n Spanish: radiación (es) f Swedish: strålning (sv) c, utstrålning (sv) c Tagalog: ninag Ukrainian: випромі́нювання n (vypromínjuvannja), випромі́нення n (vypromínennja) Vietnamese: phóng xạ (vi) (放射), bức xạ (vi) (輻射)

process of radiating waves or particles

Albanian: rrezatim (sq) m Armenian: ճառագայթում (hy) (čaṙagaytʿum) Belarusian: выпрамяне́нне n (vypramjanjénnje) Bulgarian: излъ́чване (bg) n (izlǎ́čvane), радиа́ция (bg) f (radiácija) Catalan: radiació (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: záření (cs) n Dutch: straling (nl) f Finnish: säteilytys (fi), säteilyttäminen (fi) Georgian: გამოსხივება (gamosxiveba), რადიაცია (radiacia) German: Strahlung (de) f Hungarian: sugárzás (hu) Indonesian: radiasi (id) Japanese: please add this translation if you can Kazakh: сәулелендіру (säulelendıru) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: tîrojdan (ku) Maori: whitinga Norwegian: Bokmål: stråling (no) m or f Polish: promieniowanie (pl) n Portuguese: radiação (pt) f Russian: излуче́ние (ru) n (izlučénije) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: радија́ција f, зра́че̄ње n Roman: radijácija (sh) f, zráčēnje (sh) n Slovene: sévanje (sl) n, žárčenje n Spanish: radiación (es) f Swedish: strålning (sv) c Tagalog: dagalat Turkish: ışınım (tr) Ukrainian: випромі́нювання n (vypromínjuvannja), випромі́нення n (vypromínennja)

transfer of energy via radiation

Armenian: ճառագայթում (hy) (čaṙagaytʿum) Belarusian: выпрамяне́нне n (vypramjanjénnje) Bulgarian: излъ́чване (bg) n (izlǎ́čvane) Catalan: radiació (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: sálání n Danish: varmestråling c Finnish: säteily (fi) Georgian: გამოსხივება (gamosxiveba), რადიაცია (radiacia) Indonesian: radiasi (id) Maori: whitinga Norwegian: Bokmål: stråling (no) m or f Russian: излуче́ние (ru) n (izlučénije) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: радија́ција f, зра́че̄ње n Roman: radijácija (sh) f, zráčēnje (sh) n Slovene: sévanje (sl) n, žárčenje n Spanish: radiación (es) f Swedish: strålning (sv) c Tagalog: dagalat Ukrainian: випромі́нювання n (vypromínjuvannja), випромі́нення n (vypromínennja)

radioactive energy

Albanian: rrezatim (sq) m Arabic: إِشْعَاع‎ m (ʔišʕāʕ) Armenian: ճառագայթում (hy) (čaṙagaytʿum) Azerbaijani: şüalanma, radiasiya Belarusian: радыя́цыя f (radyjácyja), выпрамяне́нне n (vypramjanjénnje) Bulgarian: радиа́ция (bg) f (radiácija), лъче́ние (bg) n (lǎčénie) Catalan: radiació (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 放射 (zh) (fàngshè), 輻射／辐射 (zh) (fúshè) Czech: záření (cs) n, radiace f Danish: stråling c Dutch: straling (nl) f Estonian: kiirgus, radiatsioon Finnish: säteily (fi) French: radiation (fr) f, rayonnement (fr) m Georgian: რადიაცია (radiacia), გამოსხივება (gamosxiveba) German: Strahlung (de) f, Radiation (de) f Greek: ακτινοβολία (el) f (aktinovolía) Hebrew: קְרִינָה‎ (he) f Hindi: विकिरण (hi) m (vikiraṇ) Hungarian: sugárzás (hu) Indonesian: radiasi (id) Italian: radiazione (it) f Japanese: 放射 (ja) (ほうしゃ, hōsha) Kazakh: радиация (radiasiä), шығару (şyğaru) Khmer: រស្មី (km) (rĕəʼsməy) Korean: 방사(放射) (ko) (bangsa) Kyrgyz: радиация (radiatsiya) Lao: ລັງສີ (lo) (lang sī) Latvian: starojums m, radiācija (lv) f Lithuanian: spinduliuotė f, radiacija f, spinduliavimas m Macedonian: радијација f (radijacija), зрачење n (zračenje) Malay: sinaran (ms) Maori: parawhiti, iraruke Norwegian: Bokmål: stråling (no) m or f Persian: پرتو‎ (fa) (partow) Polish: promieniowanie (pl) n, radiacja (pl) f Portuguese: radiação (pt) f Romanian: radiație (ro) f Russian: радиа́ция (ru) f (radiácija), излуче́ние (ru) n (izlučénije) Scottish Gaelic: rèididheachd f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: радија́ција f, зра́че̄ње n Roman: radijácija (sh) f, zráčēnje (sh) n Slovak: žiarenie n, radiácia f Slovene: sévanje (sl) n, žárčenje n, radiacija f Spanish: radiación (es) f Swedish: strålning (sv) c Tagalog: dagilap Tajik: радиатсия (radiatsiya), афканишот (afkanišot), партав (partav) Thai: รังสี (th) (rang-sǐi) Turkish: radyasyon (tr) Turkmen: radiasiýa Ukrainian: радіа́ція f (radiácija), випромі́нювання n (vypromínjuvannja), випромі́нення n (vypromínennja) Uzbek: radiatsiya (uz), nurlanish Vietnamese: phóng xạ (vi) (放射)

diversification of an ancestral species

German: Radiation (de) f, Auffächerung f

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Danish: stråling Estonian: kiiritus Irish: scaipeadh m, radaíocht f Italian: radiazione (it) f, irraggiamento (it) m Welsh: pelydriad (cy) (1,2,3), ymbelydredd (4)

See also

• nucleomitophobia

Anagrams

• antiradio

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin radiatio, radiationem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.dja.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

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Noun

radiation f (plural radiations)

1. radiation (all meanings)

Derived terms

• ceinture de radiations de Van Allen

Related terms

• radier

Descendants

• → Romanian: radiație
• → Turkish: radyasyon

Further reading

• “radiation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.