irradiation   (Sound)

The noun irradiation has 6 senses

• irradiation -- (the condition of being exposed to radiation)


• beam, beam of light, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light, irradiation -- (a column of light (as from a beacon))


• irradiation -- ((physiology) the spread of sensory neural impulses in the cortex)


• irradiation -- (the apparent enlargement of a bright object when viewed against a dark background)


• irradiation -- ((Pavolvian conditioning) the elicitation of a conditioned response by stimulation similar but not identical to the original stimulus)


• radiotherapy, radiation therapy, radiation, actinotherapy, irradiation -- ((medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance)