Actinic

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  • adjective. Of, relating to, resulting from, or showing actinism.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to actinism; having the property of actinism.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to actinism.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of, or relating to actinism
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. relating to or exhibiting actinism
  • Word Usage
    "Thus from the work of Hertz and his successors we know that light, and more particularly what we call actinic light, is an effective means of setting free electrons from certain substances."
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