Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The deflection of radiation or particles by electromagnetic or nuclear forces through angles greater than 90° to the initial direction of travel.
- noun The radiation or particles so deflected.
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- noun physics The
deflection ofparticles and/orradiation throughangles greater than 90degrees to the original direction of travel. - noun The particles and/or radiation deflected in this manner.
- noun military A
portion of the energy ofelectromagnetic radiation such as alaser orradio waves that is scattered back in the direction of the source of radiation by anobscurant . - noun computing The sending of
IP packets to essentiallyrandom addresses in response to incoming packets that have aspoofed origin . - verb To
scatter particles and/or radiation back to the direction from which they come.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes
Etymologies
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Examples
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The other scanners use X-ray beams, in what is known as backscatter technology.
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The other scanners use X-ray beams, in what is known as "backscatter technology."
News - latimes.com 2011
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The other scanners use X-ray beams, in what is known as "backscatter technology."
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The other scanners use X-ray beams, in what is known as "backscatter technology."
News - latimes.com 2011
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The full-body scanners, called backscatter devices, are supposed to deliver only a tiny amount of radiation — about as much as an airplane passenger gets during two minutes of a typical flight.
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The full-body scanners, called backscatter devices, are supposed to deliver only a tiny amount of radiation — about as much as an airplane passenger gets during two minutes of a typical flight.
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The article, published online Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine, estimated the potential risks of the radiation emitted from so-called backscatter X-ray scanners, a commonly used machine.
Little Risk to Body Scans in Airports Jennifer Corbett Dooren 2011
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Consider that the amount of radiation that you get from a scan called backscatter because it reflects back rather than penetrates the skin is so low that it is less than 2% of the amount of radiation you are exposed to in one day of simply walking around.
Body Scanners Provoke Irrational Fear Of Over-Radiation At The Airport Marc Siegel 2010
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This is using actually what's called a backscatter technology.
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This scan, using so-called backscatter technology can see right through my clothing.
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Crucially, the Malaspina study assumed that the acoustic “backscatter” – the measure of sound reflected from the deep and received by the sonar – came entirely from fish.
In the ocean’s twilight zone, a fish that could feed the world – or destroy it Helen Scales 2022
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