cosmic-ray shower

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cosmic-ray shower [′käz·mik ‚rā ′shau̇·ər]

(nuclear physics)

The simultaneous appearance of a number of downward-directed ionizing particles, with or without accompanying photons, caused by a single cosmic ray. Also known as air shower; shower.

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