How to Use gamma in a Sentence

gamma

1 of 2 noun

• There are two types of gamma-ray bursts: short and long.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2022
• But now—now their futures shoot like gamma rays from the moving car.
  — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE.com, 28 Mar. 2022
• But the gamma rays and x-rays in the light were probably not powerful enough to cause harm.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 15 July 2021
• And, by the way, what can NASA do about solar storms, gamma-ray bursts, rogue black holes or other things the universe might throw at us?
  — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
• The gamma variant, which now accounts for 16% of cases in the state and is the fastest-rising, according to the Seattle Times.
  — Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY, 17 June 2021
• The number of cases found to have been caused by the gamma variant from Brazil remain unchanged at 59.
  — Jeannie Roberts, Arkansas Online, 21 Sep. 2021
• But the long-lasting burst of gamma rays throws doubt on what exactly happened.
  — Eleonora Troja, The Conversation, 21 Dec. 2022
• It's believed these jets may be producing some of the gamma-ray emissions.
  — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 27 Aug. 2020
• There was a great product in gamma prototype, which is close to a production car, and no one knew about it.
  — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 18 June 2021
• Protons from the outflow of the black hole are interacting with the cloud, leading to gamma-ray emission and the ‘heartbeat’.
  — Popular Science, 24 Aug. 2020
• Meet the Euler-Mascheroni constant 𝛾, which is a lowercase Greek gamma.
  — Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 22 July 2022
• But with the rise of the gamma variant, first identified in Brazil, and heightened death tolls, opinions slowly began to shift.
  — USA Today, 20 Mar. 2022
• The scientists were able to observe the eruption using very-high-energy gamma rays for the first time.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 17 Mar. 2022
• That group includes the alpha, beta, gamma and delta variants.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2021
• The gamma rays emitted by cesium and cobalt can kill germs multiplying in your meat and make your apples last longer.
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2022
• So far, there have been five main variants, alpha, beta, gamma, delta and omicron.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 18 May 2022
• Usher's ninth studio album is due this fall via mega / gamma.
  — Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 2023
• Other variants – such as lambda and gamma – ravaged parts of South America but didn’t appear to make a dent in the U.S.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2021
• The Greek letter gamma quantifies the rate of change in the value of the options versus movements in the underlying stock.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2021
• Working out at the gym to keep pumped to gamma-ray levels, Ferrigno sometimes saw green sweat oozing from his pores.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al.com, 6 Mar. 2019
• Of all the electromagnetic waves in the universe, gamma rays have the smallest wavelengths and the most energy.
  — Sam McNeil, Star Tribune, 21 May 2021
• The mechanism that produces short gamma-ray bursts in mergers is still unclear.
  — Sanjana Curtis, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2022
• Epurescu accuses him of using the delay with the gamma source as a way to acquire more power over the center and its finances.
  — Edwin Cartlidge, Science | AAAS, 19 May 2021
• The gamma rays travel through the ground and buildings, so a person living on top of such an object could absorb a dangerous dose over time.
  — Jason Fagone, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Aug. 2020
• Delta also lacks the E484K mutation, which has made the gamma variant so worrisome.
  — Liz Szabo, Quartz, 29 July 2021
• Within a fraction of a microsecond, the electron and the positron collide and annihilate each other in a flash of gamma rays.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 25 Aug. 2020
• Finally, gamma includes sounds from 30 to 50 Hertz apart.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2022
• In other words, perhaps gamma-ray bursts represent the rare occasions that jets escape their stars and don't slow down too much.
  — Anna Y. Q. Ho, Scientific American, 26 Nov. 2020
• Other strains that have been found include the alpha, beta, epsilon and gamma variants.
  — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 7 Aug. 2021
• This year gamma, a music company owned in part by Apple, set up an office in Lagos, hoping to discover the next Burna Boy, or even a host of smaller stars.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023

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gamma

2 of 2 adjective

• In the 1960s, when gamma-ray bursts were first detected, scientists didn’t know what to make of them.
  — National Geographic, 2 Mar. 2016
• These are caused by the collapse of a massive star into a black hole or the collision of a pair of the dense stellar remnants called neutron stars, and squirt gamma rays but only in one direction.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2017
• The machine uses gamma rays to shrink brain tumors as an alternative to open-skull surgery, Andy Marso reports.
  — Max Londberg, kansascity.com, 23 June 2017
• The collective radiation from all of these hydrogen atom collisions, in the form of light, heat, gamma rays, and X-rays, slowly makes its way to the outer layer of a star.
  — Mike Lynch / Sky Watch, Twin Cities, 18 Mar. 2017
• Gupta says the team would like to include a gamma-ray detector in their instruments in future to help solidify the connection.
  — Adam Mann, National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2019
• But black holes produce their own radiation, especially high-energy X-rays and gamma-rays, which shoot out from the star in the form of tightly collimated...
  — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
• Of course the frisker was measuring gamma waves in addition to alpha and beta particles; all these people presumably cared about was the particles, which could continue to do harm after being removed from the zone.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018
• World View has since carried other experiments, including a gamma ray detector and a remote-sensing system.
  — Adam Mann, Science | AAAS, 22 June 2017
• Sony also adds support for gamma curves, allowing you to correct for different lighting situations while filming and ultimately, a different style for every curve.
  — Stefan Etienne, The Verge, 30 Mar. 2018
• In the 1960s, when gamma-ray bursts were first detected, scientists didn’t know what to make of them.
  — National Geographic, 2 Mar. 2016
• These are caused by the collapse of a massive star into a black hole or the collision of a pair of the dense stellar remnants called neutron stars, and squirt gamma rays but only in one direction.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2017
• The machine uses gamma rays to shrink brain tumors as an alternative to open-skull surgery, Andy Marso reports.
  — Max Londberg, kansascity.com, 23 June 2017
• The collective radiation from all of these hydrogen atom collisions, in the form of light, heat, gamma rays, and X-rays, slowly makes its way to the outer layer of a star.
  — Mike Lynch / Sky Watch, Twin Cities, 18 Mar. 2017
• Gupta says the team would like to include a gamma-ray detector in their instruments in future to help solidify the connection.
  — Adam Mann, National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2019
• But black holes produce their own radiation, especially high-energy X-rays and gamma-rays, which shoot out from the star in the form of tightly collimated...
  — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
• Of course the frisker was measuring gamma waves in addition to alpha and beta particles; all these people presumably cared about was the particles, which could continue to do harm after being removed from the zone.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018
• World View has since carried other experiments, including a gamma ray detector and a remote-sensing system.
  — Adam Mann, Science | AAAS, 22 June 2017
• Sony also adds support for gamma curves, allowing you to correct for different lighting situations while filming and ultimately, a different style for every curve.
  — Stefan Etienne, The Verge, 30 Mar. 2018

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