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Electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths longer than visible light but shorter than radio waves
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infrared
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Word definitions for infrared in dictionaries
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Infrared \In`fra*red"\, Infra-red \In`fra-red"\, a. [Infra- + red.] (Physics) Lying outside the visible spectrum at its red end; -- said of rays having a longer wavelength (and thus less refrangible) than the extreme red rays, specifically those electromagnetic ...
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Infrared ( IR ) is invisible radiant energy, electromagnetic radiation with longer wavelengths than those of visible light , extending from the nominal red edge of the visible spectrum at 700 nanometers ( frequency 430 THz ) to 1 mm (300 GHz ) (although ...
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n. the infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum; electromagnetic wave frequencies below the visible range; "they could sense radiation in the infrared" [syn: infrared frequency ] electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths longer than visible light ...
Usage examples of infrared.
The light source covers infrared and all of the visible spectrum, not, repeat not, monochromatic.
They were greeted by Desis One and Two, who flanked a long coffee table on which there were four MAC-10 machine pistols, twenty magazine clips, sixteen grenades, four miniaturized radios, two flamethrowers, four infrared binoculars, and a dismantled egg-shaped bomb that could blow up at least a quarter of the state of New Hampshire - the lesser southeastern part.
But with heat sensors, sound sensors, visual apparatus, infrared scanners, encephalographic trackers, and a complete library of card indices on every public act you and I have engaged in, they have no room for weapons.
Infrared Photography by Shuco-Mist Medical Pressure Systems, Enfield MA.
A large one, homeothermic, to judge from the infrared, holding still a short ways off.
From another pocket of the utility vest he took the Metascope, the night-vision monocular that detected infrared light, and put it to his right eye.
All you needed was an orbit twenty kilometres above the Ring plane, where you could watch for the infrared signature of reaction drives as scavenger craft matched orbits with their chosen shell sections.
The phone was equipped for e-mail, of course, but he was old-fashioned and he made the infrared connections to the Thinkpad and dialed up the Peoria AOL access number.
The hot surface reradiates energy as infrared, which cannot get through the atmosphere.
The illuminated spot expanded and reradiated in the infrared spectrum.
But since the Earth is a lot cooler than the Sun, this energy is reradiated not at ultraviolet wavelengths but at the much longer infrared, to which the atmosphere is not as transparent.
When he scanned around with his retinal insets on infrared the geometric buildings were a uniform temperature.
Not only is there X-ray analysis, spectrography, infrared, and all the rest.
The energy for his little ecosystem came from his armor, for he had adjusted the outer plates to radiate in the infrared, and draped the whole affair in a thermophilic fungus organism like pale seaweed, to photosynthesize heat energy and start the simple food chain.
These structures masked the exhaust emissions of the twin turboshaft engines and shielded them from the infrared sensors of hostile missiles.