Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun particulate_radiation

1 sense of particulate radiation

Sense 1
corpuscular radiation, particulate radiation -- (a stream of atomic or subatomic particles that may be charged positively (e.g. alpha particles) or negatively (e.g. beta particles) or not at all (e.g. neutrons))
       => radiation, radioactivity -- (the spontaneous emission of a stream of particles or electromagnetic rays in nuclear decay)