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sunray vs irradiation

irradiation vs sunray

sunray and irradiation both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
sunray Yes No No No
irradiation Yes No No No
As nouns, irradiation is a hypernym of sunray; that is, irradiation is a word with a broader meaning than sunray:
  • sunray: a ray of sunlight
  • irradiation: a column of light (as from a beacon)
Other hypernyms of sunray include beam, beam of light, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light.
sunray (noun) irradiation (noun)
a ray of sunlight (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance
a ray of artificial ultraviolet light from a sunray lamp the apparent enlargement of a bright object when viewed against a dark background
herb having a basal cluster of grey-green leaves and leafless stalks each with a solitary broad yellow flower head; desert areas Idaho to Arizona (Pavolvian conditioning) the elicitation of a conditioned response by stimulation similar but not identical to the original stimulus
(physiology) the spread of sensory neural impulses in the cortex
a column of light (as from a beacon)
the condition of being exposed to radiation
Difference between sunray and irradiation

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