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T-rays

T-rays is the plural of T-ray.

Meaning of T-ray

Noun

T-ray (plural T-rays)

  1. (also, attributive, in plural) An electromagnetic wave with a frequency intermediate between, and sharing the properties of, short radio waves and long infrared waves, generally in the 0.1 to 10 terahertz (THz) band of frequencies.
    • This terahertz "T-ray" technology combines imaging, real-time acquisition of terahertz waveforms and advanced signal processing techniques to obtain far-infrared images of objects and materials. In many cases, T-Ray^([sic]) images can also distinguish chemical compositions of the object. These...1996 September, Daniel M. Mittleman, Rune H[ylsberg] Jacobsen, Martin C. Nuss, “T-ray Imaging”, in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, volume 2, number 3, New York, N.Y....
    Synonyms:
    T-wave

Questions about T-rays

What is T-rays the plural of?
T-rays is the plural of T-ray.

Words near T-rays in the dictionary

  1. T-powering
  2. t-prothesis
  3. t-rav
  4. t-ravs
  5. T-ray
  6. T-rays
  7. T-Rex
  8. T-Rexes
  9. T-room
  10. T-section
  11. T-sections

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