Backscatter (original) (raw)

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I. (verb)

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they backscatter Listen to US pronunciation Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it backscatters Listen to US pronunciation Listen to GB pronunciation

Past simple: backscattered Listen to US pronunciation Listen to GB pronunciation

Past participle: backscattered Listen to US pronunciation Listen to GB pronunciation

-ing form: backscattering Listen to US pronunciation Listen to GB pronunciation

Sense 1

Meaning:

Scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passesplay

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "backscatter" is one way to...):

break up; disperse; scatter (cause to separate)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

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