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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Cherenkov radiation /tʃəˈrɛŋkɒf/ (also Cerenkov radiation)

▶noun Physics electromagnetic radiation emitted by particles moving in a medium at speeds faster than that of light in the same medium.

– origin 1940s: named after the Soviet physicist Pavel Cherenkov.

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