UVA

or UV-A

noun

ultraviolet light with a relatively long wavelength, able to penetrate the deep layers of the skin.

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Torture, the UVa rape, police violence—we hunger for the facts, and then twist them.

A sobering article on gang rape inside a UVA fraternity has Wahoo alumni like myself up in arms.

UVA has a strong community known for coming together in times of need.

UVA prides itself on holding all students to a high standard of accountability and integrity.

His first theater role was as Friar Laurence in a UVA production of Romeo and Juliet.

On the dry sandy tracts the uva ursi, or kinnikinnik of the Indians, was noticed.

The principal varieties of kermes are the coccus quercus, the coccus polonicus, the coccus fragariæ, and the coccus uva ursi.

The coccus uva ursi is twice the size of the Polish kermes, and dyes with alum a fine red.

Juniperus, Betula odorata, Calluna, and Arctostaphylos uva ursi were noticed for the first time.

Uva, ū′va, n. a name for such succulent indehiscent fruits as have a central placenta.

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