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Dictionary entry overview: What does UV mean?

• UV (noun)
The noun UV has 1 sense:

1. radiation lying in the ultraviolet range; wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X rays

Familiarity information: UV used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• UV (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Radiation lying in the ultraviolet range; wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X rays

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

ultraviolet; ultraviolet illumination; ultraviolet light; ultraviolet radiation; UV

Hypernyms ("UV" is a kind of...):

actinic radiation; actinic ray (electromagnetic radiation that can produce photochemical reactions)

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

sun-ray; sunray (a ray of artificial ultraviolet light from a sunray lamp)

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