to reemit

Examples

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• The film can either absorb the radiation or reemits it exactly the way researchers design it to.

• The greenhouse gases quickly reemit, or release, the absorbed heat energy, with approximately 50 percent of the reemitted energy directed back toward the Earth's surface.

  Academic text (1992)

• The researchers let these positrons pass through a thin foil of solid neon, which reemits them with a smaller energy spread.

  Academic text (2002)

• The greenhouse effect results from the fact that the atmosphere is transparent to incoming solar radiation but absorbs and reemits infrared radiation emitted at the surface.

  Academic text (1992)

• But atoms in a material (e.g., a crystal or an amorphous material like glass) can absorb and reemit across a broad spectrum because you also have the phonon (vibrational) modes.

  Blog text (2)

• The greenhouse gases quickly reemits the absorbed heat energy directed back toward the Earth's surface.

Synonyms

R

to reradiate

vsto reemit

• Specialized

1 7.5

To give out energy again, such as heat or light, after absorbing it

is broader and applies to any absorbed item, not only energy

R

to reemitting

vsto reemit

• Specialized

7.7

To send out light or energy again after taking it in

focuses especially on light, heat, or energy rather than any item

Antonyms

A

to absorb

217 3.0

To take in things such as liquid, light, or information

How Strong

to blaze

58 3.4

to radiate

• Specialized

33 4.3

to reemit

• Specialized

7.7

to glow

161 1.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology