LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does low-level radioactive waste mean? 

• LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE (noun)
  The noun LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE has 1 sense:

1. (medicine) radioactive waste consisting of objects that have been briefly exposed to radioactivity (as in certain medical tests)

  Familiarity information: LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(medicine) radioactive waste consisting of objects that have been briefly exposed to radioactivity (as in certain medical tests)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("low-level radioactive waste" is a kind of...):

radioactive waste (useless radioactive materials that are left after some laboratory or commercial process is completed)

Domain category:

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)