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actinobolism

actinobolism noun: radiation; emission or projection.

Noun

actinobolism (uncountable)

  1. (Late, Modern, obsolete) Radiation; emission or projection.
    • Here is the only difference betwixt the Actinobolism of Light and Sounds; that the one is performed in time imperceptible, though not instantaneous: the other in moments distinguishable, which are more or less according to the degrees of distance betwixt the sonant and audient.1654, Walter Charleton, A Fabrick of Science Natural, upon the Hypothesis of Atoms […], page 210

Origin of actinobolism

Borrowed from New Latin actinobolismus, from Koine Greek ἀκτινοβόλος (aktinobólos, “emission of rays”) + -ismus. Ἀκτινοβόλος is from ἀκτίς (aktís, “ray”) + βόλος (bólos, “a throw”). First attested in the 1650s.

Questions about actinobolism

What does actinobolism mean?
Actinobolism means radiation; emission or projection.
What part of speech is actinobolism?
Actinobolism is a noun.

Words near actinobolism in the dictionary

  1. actinobacterial
  2. actinobacteriophage
  3. actinobacteriophages
  4. actinobacterium
  5. actinobiology
  6. actinobolism
  7. actinobranch
  8. actinobranchia
  9. actinoceratid
  10. actinoceratids
  11. actinocerid

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