Crossword clues for reradiate
reradiate
Wiktionary
vb. To absorb some amount of radiative energy, and then later emit that energy in the form of radiative energy. The term is most often used in discussion of absorption of light or infrared radiation.
Usage examples of "reradiate".
The hot surface reradiates energy as infrared, which cannot get through the atmosphere.
The computer-generated colors were indicative of incident sunlight absorbed by the satellite and reradiated, and of heat generated and emitted by internal operations.
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.
What was happening was that light from the Sun was impinging on the Cloud and being reradiated as invisible heat.
Floods of photons modulated, coded, radiated, stored, and reradiated in more ways than she could measure.
As she did, the needling sensation across her skin grew even more intense, as if somehow her body was absorbing and reradiating the energy fields in conflict all around her.
The dusts around the dead wormhole were absorbing the fantastic energies, reradiating them as heat and X rays, and as a bruising shower of gamma radiation.
Each impinging radiation caused the dielectric constant of the hull to change so that it reradiated that exact frequency, at the same intensity as received, but a hundred and eighty degrees out of phase.
It absorbs other vibra-tions—apparently from the infrared end of the spectrum—and reradiates them as visible light, here inside the field, for the convenience of the user.