Crossword clues for insolation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Insolation \In`so*la"tion\, n. [L. insolatio: cf. F. insolation.]
The act or process to exposing to the rays of the sun for the purpose of drying or maturing, as fruits, drugs, etc., or of rendering acid, as vinegar.
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(Med.)
A sunstroke.
Exposure of a patient to the sun's rays; a sun bath.
(Meteorology) The amount of sunlight impinging on the Earth's surface.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The incident radiant energy emitted by the sun which reaches a unit area over a period of time, typically measured over a horizontal area at the Earth's surface or at the top of Earth's atmosphere. 2 The rate of delivery of such radiation. 3 The act or process of expose to the rays of the sun, such as for the purpose of medical treatment, drying or maturing, as fruits, drugs, etc., or of rendering acid, as vinegar. 4 (context medicine dated English) sunstroke.
WordNet
n. sudden prostration due to exposure to the sun or excessive heat [syn: sunstroke, thermic fever, siriasis]
incident solar radiation
therapeutic exposure to sunlight [syn: heliotherapy]
Usage examples of "insolation".
The collision two weeks ago of an out-of-control inner-system ore freighter with the insolation mirror that supplemented Komarr's solar energy was surely most literally a disaster, instantly so for the half-dozen Komarran members of the soletta's station-keeping crew who had been killed.
She knew the math, discussed nightly at her dinner table for two weeks, of the percentage loss of insolation at the equator.
The crippled star-flake of the insolation mirror had almost reached the western horizon, following the true-sun into night as the planet turned.
The damaged insolation mirror, following it, had not yet risen over the horizon to double the shadows it cast.
Twenty percent drop in insolation: it was worse than any Terran ice age, more like the darkness after the great extinction events—the KT event, the Ordovician.
Titan had the right volatiles for terrafor-mation, and though it was at great distance from the sun, receiving only one percent the insolation that Earth did, an extensive series of mirrors was adding light, more all the time, and the locals were looking into the possibility of free-hanging deuterium fusion lanterns, orbiting Titan and illuminating it further.
Twenty percent drop in insolation: it was worse than any Terran ice age, more like the darkness after the great extinction events-the KT event, the Ordovician.
And all this before the introduction of the soletta, which was raising insolation by twenty percent.
The extra insolation means less warming needed from industrial gassing.
Hunters' planet was therefore much farther from its primary than Earth was from Sol, but Hunters' Star was a blue-white subgiant, so that the total insolation received by both planets was very nearly equal.