DOSE RATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dose rate mean? 

• DOSE RATE (noun)
  The noun DOSE RATE has 1 sense:

1. the quantity of radiation absorbed per unit time

  Familiarity information: DOSE RATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOSE RATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quantity of radiation absorbed per unit time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("dose rate" is a kind of...):

rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)

 Context examples 

A high dose rate of this radioisotope can be used in brachytherapy to treat tumors by selectively delivering a cytotoxic dose of radiation to the tumor site.

(Iridium Ir 192, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of an absorbed dose rate of ionizing radiation defined as an absorbed dose of ionizing radiation equal to one Gray absorbed over an interval of time equal to one second.

(Gray per Second, NCI Thesaurus)