radiation

CEFRB1

/ˌɹeɪ.diˈeɪ.ʃən/

noun

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Examples

After being exposed to a large amount of radiation, vomiting and diarrhea will start quickly.
It's evident that human behaviour is more dangerous for the environment than radiation.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Also pronounced

Deep Dive

Extra meanings

The shooting forth of anything from a point or surface, like diverging rays of light.
The transfer of energy via radiation.
A rapid diversification of an ancestral species into many new forms.

In context

Workers wore protective suits to shield themselves from the dangerous radiation.
The radiation of love from the crowd was addictive to the young singer-songwriters.
heat radiation

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It's Christmas at ground zero / And if the radiation level's OK / I'll go out with you / To see all the new / Mutations on New Year's Day
1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party!
So the question is: have plants and animals retained over this huge amount of time—whole radiations of mammals have come and gone in this period—have they retained these potentially costly characteristics?
2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 8, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company
The second [canid group] is the radiation of dogs in South America that began when the first canids arrived about 3 Ma, after crossing the Panama land bridge (Fig. 5.4).
2016, Donald R. Prothero, The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals, page 136

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Borrowed from Latin radiatio, radiationis. By surface analysis, radiate + -ion.