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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Treatment with or exposure to x-rays.
  • noun Radiation composed of x-rays.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See radiation.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun obtaining images by the use of X rays
  • noun electromagnetic radiation of short wavelength produced when high-speed electrons strike a solid target

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Examples

  • Absorptiometry = a technique that measures the density or mass of a material bone or fat by comparing the amounts of x-radiation of two different energies that it absorbs

    OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005

  • Compared to the genuine inferno of the Sagittarian arm of the Milky Way — nearly lifeless, seething with deadly gamma and x-radiation blasted out from the galactic hub, clogged by colossal interstellar dust clouds and minefields of cosmic debris, and infested with malignant little black holes and the weird oscillating novae that generate stable transactinide elements — dreary Phlegethon was a Garden of Eden.

    Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001

  • Made itchy by the sunspots, it was emitting significant amounts of x-radiation.

    Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998

  • The x-radiation and ionization levels were within acceptable range.

    Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998

  • In June that year the group was awarded a grant of Pounds 13006 by the Royal Society 'to study x-radiation from the Sun and other stellar sources'.

    Space Business and Industry News at SpaceMart.com 2010

  • In June that year the group was awarded a grant of Pounds 13006 by the Royal Society 'to study x-radiation from the Sun and other stellar sources'.

    Space Business and Industry News at SpaceMart.com 2010

  • In June that year the group was awarded a grant of Pounds 13006 by the Royal Society 'to study x-radiation from the Sun and other stellar sources'.

    Space Business and Industry News at SpaceMart.com 2010

  • This latter is (a) at least mildly nephrotoxic in healthy people (and I was already having kidney problems) and (b) accumulates in the thyroid and, being radio-opaque, causes deposition of larger amounts of x-radiation energy into the thyroid.

    Seth's blog 2009

  • Nature, they found that HLX-1 is spewing 10 times as much x-radiation as stellar-mass black holes normally do, suggesting that the object is much heavier.

    Latest Articles 2009

  • Usual bi-polar disorder mania trileptal dose for bladder cancer: 50 to 70 mg/m2 dangerously once every 3 to 4 authors (as a present inhibitor for the store of advanced ache cancer in sons without strength of daily x-radiation or chemotherapy).

    Wii-volution 2009

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