Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or arranged like rays or radii.
- adjective Radiating from or converging to a common center.
- adjective Having or characterized by parts so arranged or so radiating.
- adjective Moving or directed along a radius.
- adjective Anatomy Of, relating to, or near the radius or forearm.
- adjective Developing symmetrically about a central point.
- noun A radial part, such as a ray, spoke, or radius.
- noun A radial tire.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ichthyology, one of the cartilaginous rays supporting the median fins of elasmobranchs.
- Of or pertaining to a ray or a radius (or radii); having the character or appearance of a ray or a radius; grouped or appearing like radii or rays; shooting out as from a center; being or moving in the direction of the radius.
- Specifically— In anatomy, of or pertaining in any way to the radius (see
radius , 2): as, the radial artery, nerve, vein; radial articulations or movements; the radial side or aspect of the arm, wrist, or hand; the radial group of muscles; the radial pronator or supinator. - In zoology, rayed, radiate, or radiating; of or pertaining to the rays, arms, or radiating processes of an animal; relating to the radially disposed or actinomeric parts of the Radiata and similar animals. See cut under
medisiform . - In ichthyology, of or pertaining to the radialia. See
radiale . - In botany:
- Belonging to a ray, as of an umbel or of a flower-head in the Compositæ.
- Developing uniformly on all sides of the axis: opposed to bifacial or dorsiventral.
- noun A radiating or radial part: a ray.
- noun The fourth joint, counting from the base, of the pedipalp of a spider.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a radius or ray; consisting of, or like, radii or rays; radiated.
- adjective (Biol.) See under
Symmetry .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective arranged like
rays thatradiate from, orconverge to a commoncentre - adjective moving along a
radius - adjective anatomy of, or relating to the radius
bone - noun a
radial tire /radial tyre
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center
- adjective issuing in rays from a common center; relating to rays of light
- noun pneumatic tire that has radial-ply casing
- adjective relating to or near the radius
- adjective relating to or moving along or having the direction of a radius
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Some of the largest structures we saw there were salt dome that had salt piercing in the center of them, and that piercing salt and generator resulted in a lot of what we call radial fault.
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Its twin radial J-type engines are capped in gleaming chrome and trail long delicate-looking finials behind the ship's single-pilot compartment.
Naboo N-1 Starfighter | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2008
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Certain American radial engines were made previous to 1914, the principal being the Albatross six-cylinder engines of 50 and 100 horse-powers.
A History of Aeronautics Evelyn Charles Vivian 1914
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To answer your question though, in short, radial velocity speed at which an object is moving away from or toward an observer along the line of sight.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Jpatt 2010
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To answer your question though, in short, radial velocity speed at which an object is moving away from or toward an observer along the line of sight.
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To answer your question though, in short, radial velocity speed at which an object is moving away from or toward an observer along the line of sight.
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To answer your question though, in short, radial velocity speed at which an object is moving away from or toward an observer along the line of sight.
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To answer your question though, in short, radial velocity speed at which an object is moving away from or toward an observer along the line of sight.
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I got unprecedented access to the headquarters of the infamous Soviet intelligence agency, the KGB, and in Leningrad I had an exclusive interview with Dr. Svyatoslav Fyodorov, the ophthalmologist who developed the revolutionary vision correction procedure known as radial keratotomy.
Make Your Life Prime Time María Celeste Arrarás 2009
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I got unprecedented access to the headquarters of the infamous Soviet intelligence agency, the KGB, and in Leningrad I had an exclusive interview with Dr. Svyatoslav Fyodorov, the ophthalmologist who developed the revolutionary vision correction procedure known as radial keratotomy.
Make Your Life Prime Time María Celeste Arrarás 2009
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