unactinic

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ actinic

Adjective[edit]

unactinic (not comparable)

  1. Not actinic.
    • 1884, American Druggist, volume 13, page 233:
      If the bottles are new, however, or the nature of their previous contents exactly known, the dispenser will sometimes prefer them even to the best unactinic glass in existence.
    • 1917, Camera Craft, volume 24, page 50:
      Every photographer knows quite well how perfectly the vision accommodates itself, in about half an hour, to the feeble unactinic light of the dark-room.