ultraviolet

English

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Latin uls

Proto-Indo-European *-teros?

Latin -ter

Latin -ā

Latin ultrālbor.

English ultra-

Latin viola

Old French -ette

Old French violettebor.

Middle English violet

English violet

English ultraviolet

From ultra- (“beyond”) +‎ violet (“violet”).

Adjective

ultraviolet (comparative more ultraviolet, superlative most ultraviolet)

1. Of electromagnetic radiation beyond (higher in frequency than) light visible to the human eye; radiation with wavelengths from 380 to 10 nanometres.
2. (figurative, physics) Relating to very high energies or very small distances or time spans.

   Antonym: infrared

   • 2004, Barton Zwiebach, A First Course in String Theory, →ISBN, Figure 23.1, page 519:

     A one-loop Feynman graph that represents a virtual process. In the limit in which the virtual process involves short distances or high momenta, one may find an ultraviolet divergence in the corresponding amplitude.

   • 2009, Herbert W. Hamber, Quantum Gravitation: The Feynman Path Integral Approach, →ISBN, page vii:

     Some have advocated the search for a new theory of quantum gravity, a theory which does not suffer from ultraviolet infinity problems.

   • 2017, David F. Chernoff, S.-H. Henry Tye, “Inflation, string theory and cosmic strings”, in Wei-Tou Ni, editor, One Hundred Years of General Relativity […], volume 2, →ISBN, page 275:

     Since current gravitational observations are insensitive to quantum effects, one may wonder why an ultraviolet completion of the gravity theory is needed if inflation, in fact, occurs several orders of magnitude below the Planck scale.

Derived terms

• extreme ultraviolet
• ultraviolet A
• ultraviolet astronomy
• ultraviolet B
• ultraviolet C
• ultraviolet catastrophe
• ultraviolet light

 

Translations

radiation with wavelengths from 380 to 10 nanometres

• Belarusian: ультрафіяле́тавы (ulʹtrafijaljétavy)
• Catalan: ultraviolat
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紫外 (zh) (zǐwài)

• Czech: ultrafialový (cs)
• Danish: ultraviolet
• Dutch: ultraviolet (nl)
• Esperanto: ultraviola
• Finnish: ultravioletti (fi)
• French: ultraviolet (fr)
• Galician: ultravioleta (gl)
• Georgian: ულტრაიისფერი (ulṭraiisperi)
• German: ultraviolett (de)
• Hindi: पराबैंगनी (parābaiṅgnī), अतिनील (atinīl)
• Hungarian: ibolyántúli (hu), ultraibolya (hu), ultraviola (hu)
• Icelandic: útfjólublátt n
• Interlingua: ultraviolette
• Irish: ultraivialait
• Italian: ultravioletto (it)
• Japanese: 紫外線の (しがいせんの, shigaisen no)
• Kazakh: ультракүлгін (ultrakülgın)
• Khmer: ស្វាយអ៊ុលត្រា (svaay ʼultraa), អ៊ុលត្រាវីយូឡេ (ʼultraaviiyuulee)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: tîroja serbinefşî

• Macedonian: ултравиоле́тов m (ultraviolétov)
• Malay: ultraungu
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хэт ягаан (xet jagaan)

• Norwegian: ultrafiolett (no)
• Persian: فرابنفش (fa) (farâbanafš)
• Polish: ultrafioletowy (pl)
• Portuguese: ultravioleta (pt) m
• Russian: ультрафиоле́товый (ru) m (ulʹtrafiolétovyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: os-bhiolait
• Spanish: ultravioleta
• Swedish: ultraviolett (sv)
• Turkish: morötesi (tr), ultraviyole (tr)
• Ukrainian: ультрафіоле́товий (ulʹtrafiolétovyj)
• Vietnamese: cực tím, tử ngoại (vi)
• Welsh: uwchfioled (cy)

Noun

ultraviolet (countable and uncountable, plural ultraviolets)

1. Ultraviolet colour.

Translations

colour

• Catalan: ultraviolat m
• German: Ultraviolett n
• Japanese: 紫外 (しがい, shigai)
• Polish: ultrafiolet (pl) m
• Portuguese: ultravioleta (pt) m
• Russian: ультрафиоле́т (ru) (ulʹtrafiolét)
• Scottish Gaelic: os-bhiolait f
• Swahili: urujuanimno

See also

• ultraviolet radiation

Danish

Adjective

ultraviolet

1. ultraviolet

Inflection

Inflection of ultraviolet
	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Indefinte common singular	ultraviolet	—	—2
Indefinite neuter singular	ultraviolet	—	—2
Plural	ultraviolete	—	—2
Definite attributive1	ultraviolete	—	—
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

References

• “ultraviolet” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From ultra- +‎ violet.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

ultraviolet (feminine ultraviolette, masculine plural ultraviolets, feminine plural ultraviolettes)

1. ultraviolet

Noun

ultraviolet m (plural ultraviolets)

1. ultraviolet (light)

Further reading

• “ultraviolet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Indonesian

Etymology

Internationalism, from ultra- +‎ violet.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ultraviˈɔlɛt/ [ul.t̪ra.fiˈɔ.lɛt̪̚]
• Syllabification: ul‧tra‧vi‧o‧let

Adjective

ultraviolèt

1. ultravioet (of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths from 380 to 10 nanometres)

   Synonym: ultraungu

Noun

ultraviolèt

1. ultraviolet (ultraviolet color)

   Synonym: ultraungu

Further reading

• “ultraviolet” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French ultraviolet. Equivalent to ultra- +‎ violet.

Adjective

ultraviolet m or n (feminine singular ultravioletă, masculine plural ultravioleți, feminine and neuter plural ultraviolete)

1. ultraviolet

Declension

Declension of ultraviolet

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	ultraviolet		ultravioletă	ultravioleți	ultraviolete
	definite	ultravioletul		ultravioleta	ultravioleții	ultravioletele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	ultraviolet		ultraviolete	ultravioleți	ultraviolete
	definite	ultravioletului		ultravioletei	ultravioleților	ultravioletelor