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COSMIC RAY BURST

Specialty Definition: COSMIC RAY BURST

DomainDefinition

Nuclear Energy & Physics

A cosmic-ray shower that is initiated when a high-energy electron, in passage through matter, produces one or more photons having energies comparable with its own. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: COSMIC RAY BURST

Language Translations for "COSMIC RAY BURST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

kaskadebyge (cascade shower, soft shower). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

cascadebui (cascade shower, soft shower). (various references)

   

French

  

gerbe en cascade, gerbe de rayons cosmiques, gerbe électrophotonique, gerbe. (various references)

   

German

  

Kaskadenschauer (air shower, cascade shower, soft shower). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καταιγισμός (hail, volley). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sciame in cascata (cascade shower, soft shower). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

osmiccay ayray urstbay

   

Portuguese

  

chuveiro em cascata (cascade shower, soft shower), feixe em cascata (cascade shower, soft shower), feixe electrofotónico (cascade shower, soft shower). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

chaparrón en cascada (cascade shower, soft shower). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: COSMIC RAY BURST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-i-m-o-r-r-s-s-t-u-y"

-3 letters: microbursts.

-4 letters: currycombs, microburst, subarctics.

-5 letters: accustoms, acoustics, acrostics, acrotisms, airbursts, arborists, boyarisms, carryouts, casuistry, currycomb, customary, microbars, obscurity, ostracism, rosariums, sartorius, scorbutic, subarctic, subatomic, timocracy, turbocars.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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