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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To radiate (absorbed radiation) after absorbing incident energy.

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  • verb To absorb some amount of radiative energy, and then later emit that energy in the form of radiative energy. The term is most often used in discussion of absorption of light or infrared radiation.

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Examples

  • Ali, who trains blacks in a new science he developed that teaches them how they can use their 'distinctive' eumelanin to reradiate ultraviolet light and focus it on whites for the purpose of giving whites skin cancers carcinomas, sarcomas and melanomas, visited Cincinnati to champion Webster and to institute a branch of his science here in the city.

    Is Aaron McGruder Done With Boondocks Nathaniel Livingston 2006

  • Individually, they are excited by incident photons and reradiate in a given spectrum.

    Letter to NAS « Climate Audit 2006

  • In turn, all these surfaces within the space reradiate to one another until equilibrium is attained.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • In turn, all these surfaces within the space reradiate to one another until equilibrium is attained.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • In turn, all these surfaces within the space reradiate to one another until equilibrium is attained.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • The entire theory that "greenhouse gases" in the atmosphere can reradiate energy back to the Earth and thus cause more heating, has been proven to violate the laws of thermodynamics, and thus to be completely devoid of physical reality.

    A Western Heart 2010

  • Some gases absord radiation of certain wavelengths and reradiate it.

    marklynas.org - home 2010

  • I still don't -- the fact is, everything we know about carbon dioxide indicates that it has a greenhouse effect, because it is more efficient at passing sunlight through to the earth, than at allowing that energy to reradiate back into space as heat.

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  • The beam excites the atom as it falls between the mirrors, causing it to reradiate the light in all directions.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • "... - the fact is, everything we know about carbon dioxide indicates that it has a greenhouse effect, because it is more efficient at passing sunlight through to the earth, than at allowing that energy to reradiate back into space as heat ...."

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