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RADIOACTIVE WASTE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does radioactive waste mean?
• RADIOACTIVE WASTE (noun)
The noun RADIOACTIVE WASTE has 1 sense:
1. useless radioactive materials that are left after some laboratory or commercial process is completed
Familiarity information: RADIOACTIVE WASTE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Useless radioactive materials that are left after some laboratory or commercial process is completed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("radioactive waste" is a kind of...):
radioactive material (material that is radioactive)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "radioactive waste"):
high-level radioactive waste (radioactive waste that left in a nuclear reactor after the nuclear fuel has been consumed)
low-level radioactive waste ((medicine) radioactive waste consisting of objects that have been briefly exposed to radioactivity (as in certain medical tests))
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