radial
径向,辐射状,辐射性,径向的
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Definitions
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- : arranged like radii or rays.
- : having spokes, bars, lines, etc., arranged like radii, as a machine.
- : made in the direction of a radius; going from the center outward or from the circumference inward along a radius: a radial cut.
- : Zoology. pertaining to structures that radiate from a central point, as the arms of a starfish.
- : of, like, or pertaining to a radius or a ray.
- : Machinery. having pistons moving inward and outward from a central point or shaft: a radial engine; a radial pump.noting a bearing designed primarily to take thrusts radial to the center of rotation.
- : Anatomy, Entomology. of, relating to, or situated near the radius.
- : acting along or in the direction of the radius of a circle: radial motion; radial velocity.
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- : a radial section or construction.
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The team then tested the rats’ memory by having them swim through a radial arm water maze containing six arms, including one with a hidden platform.
His instrument used a clever new way to hunt for other worlds, called the radial velocity technique.
Instead, the investigators used the radial velocity method, which involves looking at the slight gravitational wobble a planet causes in its star as it makes its orbit.
A quadrant of a circle is one quarter of the same, being bounded on two of its sides by two radial lines, as in Figure 49.
In kangaroo rats, which are saltators, the index rises to more than 100 owing to the lengthening of the radial component.
They were in a section of the passage now that corresponded roughly to the statue's radial artery.
The lower bars are probably meant for teeth; what the radial lines on the crown are supposed to be is again conjecture.
The hand of an emaciated individual may be readily injected, both arteries and veins, by fixing the pipe in the radial artery.