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Ultraviolet

adjective

Having or employing wavelengths shorter than light but longer than X-rays; lying outside the visible spectrum at its violet end. "An ultraviolet lamp"

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... 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

Words linked to "Ultraviolet" : unseeable, invisible, ultraviolet lamp, ultraviolet illumination, actinic ray, sun-ray, actinic radiation, sunray