coronal
Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈkɒɹənəl/, /kəˈɹəʊnəl/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈkɔɹənəl/, /ˈkɑɹənəl/, /kəˈɹoʊnəl/, enPR /kŏr'ə-nəl/
Adjective

coronal

  1. Relating to a crown or coronation.
    • 1649, [John] Milton, [Eikonoklastes]  […], London: Printed by Matthew Simmons,  […], OCLC 1044608640 ↗:
      The law and his coronal oath require his undeniable assent to what laws the Parliament agree upon.
  2. (astronomy) Relating to the corona of a star.
    • The coronal light during the eclipse is faint.
      Coronal holes are darker, cooler regions of the sun's atmosphere, or corona, containing little solar material. In these gaps, magnetic field lines whip out into the solar wind rather than looping back to the sun's surface. Coronal holes can affect space weather, as they send solar particles streaming off the sun about three times faster than the slower wind unleashed elsewhere from the sun's atmosphere, according to a description from NASA.
  3. (botany) Relating to the corona of a flower.
  4. (phonetics) Relating to a sound made with the tip or blade of the tongue.
  5. (anatomy) Relating to the coronal plane that divides a body into dorsal (back) and ventral (front).
Translations
  • French: coronal
  • German: koronal
  • Italian: coronale
  • Portuguese: coronal
  • Spanish: coronal
Noun

coronal (plural coronals)

  1. A crown or coronet.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:7.5?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter V], in Le Morte Darthur, book V:
      Therfore aryse and dresse the thow gloton / For this day shall thou dye of my hand / Thenne the gloton anone starte vp and tooke a grete clubbe in his hand / and smote at the kynge that his coronal fylle to the erthe
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:
      That shall embellish more your beautie bright, / And crowne your heades with heavenly coronall, / Such as the Angels weare before Gods tribunall!
  2. A wreath or garland of flowers.
  3. The frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronae or garlands.
  4. (phonetics) A consonant produced with the tip or blade of the tongue.
Translations
  • French: coronale
  • German: Koronal
  • Italian: coronale
  • Portuguese: coronal
  • Spanish: coronal
Noun

coronal (plural coronals)

  1. Obsolete form of colonel#English|colonel.



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