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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reradiate.

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Examples

  • Dust absorbs blue light, making anything seen through it look redder; it gets heated by nearby stars, then reradiates the heat as infrared light or microwaves.

    A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010

  • Dust absorbs blue light, making anything seen through it look redder; it gets heated by nearby stars, then reradiates the heat as infrared light or microwaves.

    A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010

  • Dust absorbs blue light, making anything seen through it look redder; it gets heated by nearby stars, then reradiates the heat as infrared light or microwaves.

    A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010

  • Dust absorbs blue light, making anything seen through it look redder; it gets heated by nearby stars, then reradiates the heat as infrared light or microwaves.

    A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010

  • Thus the blackbox radiates or reradiates to space only energy it has originally received from the sun.

    Trenberth on Statistics « Climate Audit 2006

  • The most significant flaw in your description is that when the water vapor in the clouds reradiates the thermal energy it radiates it in all directions, not just towards the earth.

    Hits « Climate Audit 2005

  • Has no significant thermal resistance, aged sheeting has no significant reflectivity, reradiates the received solar radiation into the building creating intolerably high indoor temperatures during the daytime.

    3. Design rules 1993

  • Presumably the shell reradiates it in the infrared.

    Inconstant Star Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1991

  • Lindzen, holds that, "CO2 absorbs in the infrared and reradiates heat downward, thus heating the earth."

    GREENIE WATCH 2010

  • The Earth absorbs these higher energies and reradiates the energy.

    Drudge Retort nmg_no 2009

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