Infrared

//ˌɪnfɹəˈɹed//

"Infrared" in a Sentence (19 examples)

People show up bright on an infrared camera because of their body heat.

An infrared ray is electromagnetic radiation.

Our eyes can't see infrared light.

An important function of the Skylab space station was to take photographs of the Earth using special infrared cameras. One of the pictures enabled scientists to help famine victims in Africa find water.

The Infrared Astronomical Satellite's mission was to map the entire sky at infrared wavelengths. It was equipped with a special infrared telescope to scan the sky.

Infrared and ultra-violet rays are types of light invisible to the human eye.

Infrared radiation, visible light, and ultraviolet light are all types of waves in the electromagnetic spectrum.

Infrared waves have less energy than visible light waves.

As greenhouse gas concentrations continue to rise, infrared radiative cooling by the surface and the atmosphere to space becomes less effective.

Some people buy eclipse glasses that filter out all harmful ultraviolet and infrared light, as well as the majority of intense visible light. The safest way to view an eclipse, however, is to project its image through a pinhole made in a card onto another piece of white card.

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Collisions of these 'transparent' molecules with the molecules that do have absorption bands in the infrared can have a considerable influence on the intensities of the observed absorption bands.

Sonne has shown that by means of the luminous rays the temperature in the tissue may be raised to a higher degree than by the use of the infrareds.

Exposure of spectral pieces at centimeters, millimeters, and infrareds, which provide a top steadiness of the dependence "MCW radiation vs. parameter Δt" and its interannual (seasonal) dynamics.

In his room, he could install his infrareds without being discovered.

Beams are the active counterparts of passive infrareds (PIRs). Since these are active infrareds, they require two parts: a transmitter and a receiver.

Additionally, infrareds tend to cook food faster so there's less time to render said fat.

Unless otherwise stated, we will be working in Euclidean space compactified to a sphere in order to avoid infrared problems.

Secondly, as stated already by Osborne & Provenzale, pure k^(-α)-behaviour is impossible since there would have to be infinite power at zero frequency (this would correspond to an infrared catastrophe).

Although infrared divergences are of long-distance nature, they often play an essential role in the verification of the validity of the perturbative treatment of short-distance phenomena.

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