Difference between Insolation and Sunstroke

What is the difference between Insolation and Sunstroke?

Insolation as a noun is the incident radiant energy emitted by the sun which reaches a unit horizontal area of the earth's surface; the rate of delivery of such radiation while Sunstroke as a noun is heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays.

Insolation

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The incident radiant energy emitted by the sun which reaches a unit horizontal area of the Earth's surface; the rate of delivery of such radiation The act or process to exposing to the rays of the sun for the purpose of drying or maturing, as fruits, drugs, etc., or of rendering acid, as vinegar. sunstroke. Exposure of a patient to the sun's rays; a sun bath.

Sunstroke

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays.

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