DICTIONARY ENTRY
5 SYLLABLES
irradiation
/ɪ,reɪdi'eɪʃən/ · ɪreɪdieɪʃən
Irradiation has 5 syllables: ir · ra · di · a · tion.
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noun. A column of light (as from a beacon).
noun. (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance.
noun. (Pavolvian conditioning) the elicitation of a conditioned response by stimulation similar but not identical to the original stimulus.
noun. (physiology) the spread of sensory neural impulses in the cortex.
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