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unactinic

unactinic adjective: not actinic.

Adjective

unactinic (not comparable)

  1. Not actinic.
    • If the bottles are new, however, or the nature of their previous contents exactly known, the dispenser will sometimes prefer them even to the best unactinic glass in existence.1884, American Druggist, volume 13, page 233
    • Every photographer knows quite well how perfectly the vision accommodates itself, in about half an hour, to the feeble unactinic light of the dark-room.1917, Camera Craft, volume 24, page 50

Origin of unactinic

From un- + actinic.

Questions about unactinic

What does unactinic mean?
Unactinic means not actinic.
What part of speech is unactinic?
Unactinic is an adjective.

Words near unactinic in the dictionary

  1. unactability
  2. unactable
  3. unacted
  4. unactedness
  5. unacting
  6. unactinic
  7. unaction
  8. unactionable
  9. unactioned
  10. unactivatable
  11. unactivated

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