UV
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4.2
- noun
- /juː viː/
- Specialized
- Wearing sunglasses with UV protection can help prevent damage to your eyes from harmful rays.
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Watch on YouTubeAnd that's why people link UV light to skin cancer.
- And that's why people link UV light to skin cancer.
- If your eyeglasses or contact lenses have UV protection, that's OK.
- It's called dry oil spray or something with UV protection in it.
- I'm not going to the point being that UV damage is bad.
- Water and detergent resistant, UV protected, chip resistant.
- But you do run into the fact that this is UV reactant stuff.
- It should be UV finite, as physicists say.
Examples
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And that's because your car windshield already has UV light protection built in it.
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And that's why people link UV light to skin cancer.
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So I need to have a UV umbrella to protect my good skin.
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This is a UV based water filter.
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It's called dry oil spray or something with UV protection in it.
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So this is the tinted UV Defense cream.
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These are some UV sterilizer tubes.
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Yeah, here it's absorbing UV light and re radiating it as visible light.
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Oh, and if it has a sunroof, it should have a uv coating on the interior of the glass as well.
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It also says, well, it says fast drying, non yellowing and UV resistant.
Synonyms
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4.0
A type of light from the sun that you cannot see and that can burn your skin
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5.1
Invisible light with waves shorter than visible light that can cause sunburn
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3.9
A strong invisible light from the sun that can damage skin and kill germs
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4.1
Invisible light from the sun that can burn skin
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5.3
A range of light waves shorter than visible light that can cause sunburn
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6.5
Invisible light beyond the violet end of visible light
Surface Forms
Etymology
UV comes from ultra- meaning 'beyond' and violet the color, so ultraviolet is light that is 'beyond violet', a kind of light we cannot see. So UV rays are stronger than visible light and can damage your skin.