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Actinic

Actinic \Ac*tin"ic\, a. Of or pertaining to actinism; as, actinic rays.

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actinic

a. 1 Of or relating to actinism. 2 Composed of actin.

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actinic

adj. relating to or exhibiting actinism

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Usage examples of "actinic".

Venerian lives upon the bottom of an everlasting sea of fog and his thin epidermis, utterly without pigmentation, burns and blisters as frightfully at the least exposure to actinic light as does ours at the touch of a red-hot iron.

After the actinic glow of the drive, the white heat of the drive components seemed dim by comparison.

Then something actinic and mighty flashed, striking like a fist toward the heart of a great land mass.

He looked down on her still, white face and bright hair, and he felt his heart contract with pain to see them darken ever so faintly and beautifully under the brilliant operating light, rich in actinic rays.

Harsh, blinding, actinic, the lights sparked on before they reached the fence.

Fireworks, a rocket in a silver arc, white actinic fire in high parabola, its origin somewhere to the left, its terminus twenty yards behind Johan Schmidt.

Through an arched opening, she could see a cobbled area that flickered with torchlight, contrasting sharply with the bright, actinic glare of floodlamps.

The actinic flare of outraged nerves reamed her through, then became stripped of meaning by the bared lash of her will.

The deck canted wildly for a mad instant before the artificial gravity reassumed control, and die bridge was filled with the smoke and actinic glare of electrical fires.

The canopy, the new lowering copper-colored sky, shut out the direct sun and the remembered blue sky, and it shut out other things that had formerly trickled down: hard radiation, excessive ultraviolet rays and all the actinic rays, and triatomic oxygen.

And it should be beyond the power of hard radiation of every sort, beyond the fury of excessive ultraviolet rays or actinic rays or triatomic oxygen.

Overhead, the actinic pinpoint of CY Aquarii hit the weather dome and was diffused into a wide, soft white glow.

He had never been to the hospital and only once sought medical carefor actinic keratosis, a condition besetting fair-skinned Scandinavians, which had been remedied with the removal of a few frecklelike papules on his forehead and nose, the consequence of too much sun as an adolescent.

Tiny actinic spangles of light showed where these had begun to encounter the minefields she had sown into the gravitational subcurrents of the cluster days before the freighters arrived.

The actinic light showed it all too clearly: the turtleback forward deck and four billowing smokestacks, and the waves curling back from the cruel knife bows looming over his boat.