Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A garland, wreath, or circlet for the head.
- noun Linguistics A coronal consonant.
- adjective Of or relating to a corona, especially of the head.
- adjective Of, relating to, or having the direction of the coronal suture or of the plane dividing the body into front and back portions.
- adjective Linguistics Articulated by raising the blade of the tongue, as (t) in tip and (n) in night.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, pertaining to a corona in any of the botanical senses of that word.
- Pertaining to a crown; relating to the crown or to coronation.
- In anatomy and zoology, pertaining to a corona, in any sense of the word; coronary. Specifically— Pertaining to the corona or top of the head: as, the coronal suture (that is, the frontoparietal suture); coronal feathers of a bird.
- Corresponding to the coronal suture (that is, transverse and longitudinal) in direction: said of any plane or section of the body extending from one side to the other through or parallel with the long axis: distinguished from
sagittal : as, a coronal section of the foot. - Of or pertaining to a corona, or halo around one of the heavenly bodies; specifically, pertaining to the corona of the sun.
- noun A crown, wreath, or garland.
- noun The head of a tilting-lance of iron, furnished with two, three, or four blunt points, which give a good hold on shield or helmet when striking, but do not penetrate.
- noun The tilting-lance itself.
- noun In anatomy, the coronal or frontoparietal suture. See cut under
skull . - noun In biology, a coronal or crowning cell; one of the ectoblasts of a segmented ovum in certain stages of its development.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A crown; wreath; garland.
- noun The frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronæ or garlands.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a corona (in any of the senses).
- adjective Of or pertaining to a king's crown, or coronation.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the top of the head or skull.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the shell of a sea urchin.
- adjective (Anat.) a suture extending across the skull between the parietal and frontal bones; the
fronto-parietal suture.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
crown orcoronet . - noun A
wreath orgarland of flowers. - noun obsolete a variant of
colonel - noun The frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronae or garlands.
- adjective relating to a
crown - adjective astronomy relating to the
corona of a star - adjective botany relating to the
corona of a flower - adjective phonetics relating to a sound made with the
tip orblade of thetongue - adjective anatomy a "coronal plane" or a "coronal section" divides a body into
dorsal (back) andventral (front)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The comet was left a bare rock, with its severed tail wrapped around the front of the solar storm, known as a coronal mass ejection.
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A jet of highly energized particles, called a coronal mass ejection, was spotted billowing away from the sun a short time later.
Space Diary: Sun 2009
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That depth perception is also particularly helpful for studying a type of solar eruption called a coronal mass ejection.
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A jet of highly energized particles, called a coronal mass ejection, was spotted billowing away from the sun a short time later.
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A jet of highly energized particles, called a coronal mass ejection, was spotted billowing away from the sun a short time later.
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A jet of highly energized particles, called a coronal mass ejection, was spotted billowing away from the sun a short time later.
Space Diary: Sunspot 2008
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A jet of highly energized particles, called a coronal mass ejection, was spotted billowing away from the sun a short time later.
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A jet of highly energized particles, called a coronal mass ejection, was spotted billowing away from the sun a short time later.
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BILL TUCKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): They are officially known as coronal mass expulsions, but most people know them better at solar flares.
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For that matter the coronal was a bye-word, and why not?
The Collectors Frank Jewett Mather
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