radiation
/ˌɹeɪ.diˈeɪ.ʃən/ noun B1- The shooting forth of anything from a point or surface, like diverging rays of light. · The radiation of love from the crowd was addictive to the young singer-songwriters.
- The process of radiating waves or particles.
- The transfer of energy via radiation.
- Radioactive energy.
- A rapid diversification of an ancestral species into many new forms.
Plural radiations
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He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them.
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