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Ultraviolet

adjective

Having or employing wavelengths shorter than light but longer than X-rays; lying outside the visible spectrum at its violet end. "An ultraviolet lamp"

noun

Radiation lying in the ultraviolet range; wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X rays. Synonyms: ultraviolet illumination, ultraviolet light, ultraviolet radiation, UV.

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"Ultraviolet" Quotes from Famous Books

... cubical, and windowless building, with the single word food next to each of the sealed entrances. The small entrance he went through was a series of automatic chambers that cycled him through ultrasonics, ultraviolet, antibio spray, rotating brushes and three final rinses. He was finally admitted, damper but much cleaner to the central area. Men and robots were stacking crates and he asked one of the men for Krannon. The man looked ...

— Deathworld • Harry Harrison

... to parts of the ordinary spectrum, well known in themselves, which we have purposely left out of our study so far. These are the regions of the ultra-violet and the infra-red, invisible in themselves, but forming part of the spectrum as a whole. The ultraviolet manifests through chemical effects, the infra-red through thermal effects. We have left them out of our considerations because these regions of the spectrum differ from the visible part not only quantitatively, as present-day science believes, but qualitatively also, and in a fundamental way. ...

— Man or Matter • Ernst Lehrs