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solar radiation

noun

  1. energy radiated from the sun in the form of electromagnetic waves, including visible and ultraviolet light and infrared radiation.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of solar radiation1

First recorded in 1805–15

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Example Sentences

On the other hand, the moon is small and without an atmosphere or a magnetic field to deflect solar radiation.

If we can imagine the earth cut off from the solar radiation, the air would cease to move.

Such a frozen fog is an effective reflector of solar radiation.

Had no other obstacle existed, this alone would have been sufficient to render the observations on solar radiation impossible.

Here was a means of convening solar radiation into heat, then, that offered tremendous commercial possibilities!

As a rule, even when the sky is clear, about one-half of the solar radiation is lost during the day by atmospheric absorption.

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