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Ultraviolet   /ˌəltrəvˈaɪəlɪt/   Listen
Ultraviolet

adjective
1.
Having or employing wavelengths shorter than light but longer than X-rays; lying outside the visible spectrum at its violet end.  "An ultraviolet lamp"
noun
1.
Radiation lying in the ultraviolet range; wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X rays.  Synonyms: ultraviolet illumination, ultraviolet light, ultraviolet radiation, UV.



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"Ultraviolet" Quotes from Famous Books



... right. The air-regenerating apparatus had been developed from the aeriating culture-tanks in which antibiotics were grown on Earth. It needed only reseeding with algae—microscopic plants which when supplied with ultraviolet light fed avidly on carbon dioxide and yielded oxygen. The ship was a rather involved combination of essentially simple devices. It could be put back into such workability as it had once ...
— Operation: Outer Space • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... N. purple &c adj.; blue and red, bishop's purple; aniline dyes, gridelin^, amethyst; purpure [Heral.]; heliotrope. lividness, lividity. V. empurple^. Adj. purple, violet, ultraviolet; plum-colored, lavender, lilac, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... you have photographed you must develop the film. And there is no time for that aboard a fast steamer running through the ice and the fog. No, it is mere theory, but I have an idea that the ultraviolet light—the actinic rays beyond the violet end of the spectrum, you know—will penetrate fog to a great distance, and in spite of its higher refractive power, which would distort and magnify an object, it is better ...
— The Grain Ship • Morgan Robertson

... to use his ultraviolet pencil-light to bring it to him, and dial for the brandy-and-soda he wanted. As long as that was necessary, there really wasn't anything to worry about. But some of these days, they'd build robots that would anticipate orders, and robots to operate robots, and robots ...
— A Slave is a Slave • Henry Beam Piper

... bright objects projected against them, and he went on to show that the higher above the sea level the observer went, the darker the sky really is and the fainter the spectrum. In fact, the latter shows but little more than a band in the violet and ultraviolet at a height of 8,500 feet, while at sea-level it shows nearly the whole photographic spectrum. The only reason of this must be particles of some reflecting matter from which sunlight is reflected. The author refers this to watery stuff, of which nine-tenths is left ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 • Various



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