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HEAT RAY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does heat ray mean?
• HEAT RAY (noun)
The noun HEAT RAY has 1 sense:
1. a ray that produces a thermal effect
Familiarity information: HEAT RAY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A ray that produces a thermal effect
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("heat ray" is a kind of...):
beam; beam of light; irradiation; light beam; ray; ray of light; shaft; shaft of light (a column of light (as from a beacon))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heat ray"):
infrared ray (a ray of infrared radiation; produces a thermal effect (as from an infrared lamp))
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