PARTICULATE RADIATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does particulate radiation mean? 

• PARTICULATE RADIATION (noun)
  The noun PARTICULATE RADIATION has 1 sense:

1. a stream of atomic or subatomic particles that may be charged positively (e.g. alpha particles) or negatively (e.g. beta particles) or not at all (e.g. neutrons)

  Familiarity information: PARTICULATE RADIATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARTICULATE RADIATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stream of atomic or subatomic particles that may be charged positively (e.g. alpha particles) or negatively (e.g. beta particles) or not at all (e.g. neutrons)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

corpuscular radiation; particulate radiation

Hypernyms ("particulate radiation" is a kind of...):

radiation; radioactivity (the spontaneous emission of a stream of particles or electromagnetic rays in nuclear decay)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "particulate radiation"):

alpha radiation; alpha ray (the radiation of alpha particles during radioactive decay)

beta radiation; beta ray; electron radiation (radiation of beta particles during radioactive decay)

neutron radiation (radiation of neutrons (as by a neutron bomb))