Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Beyond the red: used of the invisible heat-rays, less refrangible than those forming the lower or red part of the spectrum, more commonly called the infra-red rays. See spectrum.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Physics) Situated beyond or below the red rays.

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  • adjective dated infrared

Etymologies

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ultra- +‎ red

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Examples

  • Its main console was installed in a specially designed executive office, mounted on an enormous executive desk of finest ultramahagony topped with rich ultrared leather.

    The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas 1996

  • Its main console was installed in a specially designed executive office, mounted on an enormous executive desk of finest ultramahagony topped with rich ultrared leather.

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1979

  • Mascart, and others, adds much to our knowledge of the sun; while the photographs of Abney in the ultrared increase our information in a direction less expected and certainly less easy of attainment.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 Various

  • Investigations have been made as to whether different conditions of aggregation affect atoms and molecules, and the molecular conditions in electrolytic dissociation and the ultrared absorption spectrum of crystals have been studied.

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1930 - Presentation Speech 1931

  • The ultrared spectrum, in the form of the Raman-lines, is moved up to that region and, in consequence of that, exact measurements of its lines can be effected.

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1930 - Presentation Speech 1931

  • In this case these new lines group themselves round the incoming primary frequency on either side of it, and the distance between the activating frequency and the nearest Raman-lines will be identical with the lowest oscillation frequencies of the atom or with its ultrared spectrum.

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1930 - Presentation Speech 1931

  • So far, indeed, there have been all but insuperable difficulties in the way of studying these ultrared oscillations, because that part of the spectrum lies so far away from the region where the photographic plate is sensitive.

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1930 - Presentation Speech 1931

  • In this way we get the ultrared spectrum moved up to the spectral line of the activating light.

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1930 - Presentation Speech 1931

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