insolation
nounThe act or an instance of exposing to sunlight.
nounTherapeutic exposure to sunlight.
nounThe solar radiation striking Earth or another planet.
nounThe rate of delivery of solar radiation per unit of horizontal surface.
nounExposure to the sun’s rays; subjection to the influence of solar heat and light, as for drying, maturing, or the production of chemical action; in medicine, treatment by exposure to the sun, in order to stimulate the vital forces.
nounA local injury of plants caused by exposure to too strong light, or to the rays of the sun concentrated as by inequalities in the glass of a greenhouse, producing excessively rapid evaporation which kills the part affected.
nounThe state of being heated by the sun; the effect of exposure to the sun’s rays; specifically, as applied to persons, sunstroke.