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n.
Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, and numbfish. See Electrical fish, under Electrical.
n.
The reciprocal of the focal distance of a lens, used as measure of the divergence or convergence of a pencil of rays.
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Any one of several species of elasmobranch fishes of the genus Pristis. They have a sharklike form, but are more nearly allied to the rays. The flattened and much elongated snout has a row of stout toothlike structures inserted along each edge, forming a sawlike organ with which it mutilates or kills its prey.
n.
The property possessed by heat of being composed, like light, of rays of different degrees of refrangibility, which are unequal in rate or degree of transmission through diathermic substances.
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Making red; as, rubific rays.
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Transmitting rays of light without permitting objects to be distinctly seen; partially transparent.
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Situated beyond or below the red rays; as, the ultrated rays of the spectrum, which are less refrangible than the red.
v. i.
To shine; to emit rays of light.
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Having three rays.
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Of, relating to, or produced by, the chemical action of rays of light; photographic.
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The light perceived before the rising, and after the setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18ยก below the horizon, occasioned by the illumination of the earth's atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
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A shade, screen, or guard, carried in the hand for sheltering the person from the rays of the sun, or from rain or snow. It is formed of silk, cotton, or other fabric, extended on strips of whalebone, steel, or other elastic material, inserted, or fastened to, a rod or stick by means of pivots or hinges, in such a way as to allow of being opened and closed with ease. See Parasol.
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Lying outside the visible spectrum at its violet end; -- said of rays more refrangible than the extreme violet rays of the spectrum.
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A carangoid fish (Caranx gallus, or C. crinitus) having the anterior rays of the soft dorsal and anal fins prolonged in the form of long threads.
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Arranged in a transverse whorl or whorls like the rays of a wheel; as, verticillate leaves of a plant; a verticillate shell.
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Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent diamond; -- opposed to opaque.
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Any one of several species of large sting rays belonging to Trygon and allied genera.
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Of, pertaining to, or denoting, those rays of light which produce chemical effects; actinic.
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Having the nature or quality of red; as, the rubiform rays of the sun.
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A California composite plant (Layia platyglossa), the flower of which has yellow rays tipped with white.
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