All 17 Uses
radiation
in
Underworld, by DeLillo
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- They sent manned aircraft through radiation clouds.
*radiation = particles emitted by nuclear decay that can make people sick
- It was a religious conviction in our business that these deposits of rock salt would not leak radiation.†
- No, the question is, Did you do this enough times to suffer bone damage because the machine was basically spraying your feet with radiation.†
- All the creatures God put on earth, only insects survive the radiation.†
- Klara thought of the radiation monsters in Japanese science-fiction movies and looked down the aisle at Miles, who was a scholar of the form.†
- If there was a politics of montage, it was more intimate here—not the themes of atomic radiation or irresponsible science and not state terror either, the independent artist who is disciplined and sovietized.†
- Lead-lined, yes, to keep him safe from nuclear war, from the Ravage and Decay of radiation fallout.†
- When the radiation makes you too sick to vomit, they hand out rubber vomit, for morale.†
- He has swallowed the rest of the string, which holds an x-ray plate coated with aluminum jelly, dangling somewhere below the esophagus, to measure the radiation passing through his body.†
- We must have aircraft flying near their borders with instruments that measure radiation.†
- At the gate we are given badges to wear, gauzy strips that register the amount of radiation absorbed by the body in a given period.†
- He wears pressed fatigues and carries a radiation meter to go with the two badges clipped to his shirt.†
- He says the hole drilled from the surface to the firing point has been tamped and plugged to keep radiation from venting.†
- Five hundred nuclear explosions at the test site, which is southwest of the city, and even when they stopped testing in the atmosphere, the mine shafts they dug for underground detonations were not deep enough to preclude the venting of dangerous levels of radiation.†
- Viktor gives directions to a radiation clinic on the outskirts of the city and we drive out there in a mood of some disgruntlement (Brian and I) even if we are unresisting, too stilled by the pickle jars to make an open complaint.†
- For many years the word radiation was banned.†
- Every time they did a test, hundreds of towns and villages exposed to radiation.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(radiation as in: nuclear radiation) particles emitted by unstable atomic nucleiGenerally, radiation is discussed in terms of harmful levels of radiation that cause sickness. However, there is a normal level of radiation that is not harmful and sometimes radiation is carefully used for beneficial purposes such as medical treatments that use it to kill cancer cells.
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(2)
(radiation as in: electromagnetic radiation) energy sent out as invisible rays such as from heat, light, or radio waves
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)