"gamma ray" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: gamma rays [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} gamma ray (plural gamma rays)
  1. Very high frequency (and therefore very high energy) electromagnetic radiation emitted as a consequence of radioactivity. Wikipedia link: gamma ray Categories (topical): Radioactivity Synonyms: Gamma ray, gamma-ray, Gamma-ray, γ ray, Γ ray, γ-ray, Γ-ray Derived forms: gamma-ray astronomy, gamma-ray burst, graser Related terms: gamma radiation, T-ray, X-ray, alpha ray, beta ray Translations (very high frequency electromagnetic radiation): raig gamma [masculine] (Catalan), 伽馬射線 (Chinese Mandarin), 伽马射线 (gāmǎ shèxiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 加馬射線 (Chinese Mandarin), 加马射线 (jiāmǎ shèxiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 丙種射線 (Chinese Mandarin), 丙种射线 (bǐngzhǒng shèxiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), gammasäde (Finnish), rayon gamma [masculine] (French), გამა გამოსხივება (gama gamosxiveba) (Georgian), გამა სხივი (gama sxivi) (Georgian), Gammastrahlung [feminine] (German), ακτίνα γάμμα (aktína gámma) [feminine] (Greek), gamma-sugár (Hungarian), gammageisli [masculine] (Icelandic), gáma-gha [masculine] (Irish), ガンマ線 (gamma-sen) (Japanese), 감마선 (gammaseon) (Korean), sinar gama (Malay), gammastråle [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), gammastråle [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), raio gama [masculine] (Portuguese), ਗਾਮਾ ਕਿਰਨ (gāmā kiran) [feminine] (Punjabi), га́мма-излуче́ние (gámma-izlučénije) [neuter] (Russian), rayo gamma [masculine] (Spanish), gammastråle (Swedish), sinag-gama (Tagalog), gama ışını (Turkish), pelydryn gama [masculine] (Welsh)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.