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BACKSCATTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does backscatter mean? 

BACKSCATTER (verb)
  The verb BACKSCATTER has 1 sense:

1. scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passesplay

  Familiarity information: BACKSCATTER used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BACKSCATTER (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they backscatter  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it backscatters  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: backscattered  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: backscattered  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: backscattering  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "backscatter" is one way to...):

break up; disperse; scatter (cause to separate)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s


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