shield
noun
a broad piece of armor, varying widely in form and size, carried apart from the body, usually on the left arm, as a defense against swords, lances, arrows, etc.
unshielded
-
a word derived from
shield.
Example Sentences
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The unshielded receiver requires at least 1,000 suns of concentration for comparable performance.
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024
Yet many lights are used in ways — unshielded and shining into the sky, blazing over empty parking lots through the wee small hours — that serve little purpose.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2023
And because so few experiments have probed this mass range, even little prototype detectors unshielded from background radiation can yield interesting data, Pyle says.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 27, 2022
Getting to the SSD is a tricky business, involving removing the rubber ring on the bottom of the device, unscrewing the panel, and pulling out the unshielded power supply.
From The Verge ● Mar. 21, 2022
Yet Johns abstract warnings of the perils of the unshielded cyclotron had less visceral impact on the staff than the fate of the very first mouse he irradiated with neutrons.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
