verb
- past tense and past participle of reemit; to emit again or send out again
Usage: technical; physics
Examples
- The absorbed light was reemitted at a different wavelength.
- The satellite reemitted the signal to ground stations.
- Heat from the pavement was reemitted into the atmosphere.
- The fluorescent material reemitted blue light when exposed to UV rays.
- Radio waves were reemitted by the antenna array.
- The greenhouse gases reemitted infrared radiation back to Earth.