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nonradiative

nonradiative adjective: not radiative.

Adjective

nonradiative (not comparable)

  1. Not radiative
    • He had done that in virtue of having followed out to their logical issue the fundamental scientific principles of the subject which he had so clearly grasped, one of which was the essential distinction between the radiative and the nonradiative circuit.1901 May 17, Journal of the Society of Arts, volume 49, page 516
    • Multi-charge centers and complexes in semiconductors may represent effective centers for nonradiative recombination due to Auger processes involving participation of two localized carriers.1991, V.N. Abakumov, Nonradiative Recombination in Semiconductors, page 238

Forms of nonradiative

alternative formnon-radiative

Origin of nonradiative

From non- + radiative.

Words formed from nonradiative

Questions about nonradiative

What does nonradiative mean?
Nonradiative means not radiative.
What part of speech is nonradiative?
Nonradiative is an adjective.

Words near nonradiative in the dictionary

  1. nonradial
  2. nonradially
  3. nonradiate
  4. nonradiated
  5. nonradiating
  6. nonradiative
  7. nonradiatively
  8. nonradical
  9. nonradicals
  10. nonradicular
  11. nonradio

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