Meaning

1 senses
  1. (attributive, countable, uncountable)The axes of a two-dimensional texture, as opposed to those (X, Y, Z) of the three-dimensional model to which it is applied.

    UV mapping; UV coordinates; UV texturing

More definitions
  • radiation lying in the ultraviolet range; wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X rays

Examples

2 sentences
  1. In English, "ultraviolet" is often abbreviated as "UV".

  2. This resin needs UV light in order to cure.

Forms

plural: UVs
SingularUV
PluralUVs

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Deriveduvaser

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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