radical
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
radical
- Favoring fundamental change, or change at the root cause of a matter.
- His beliefs are radical.
- (botany, not comparable) Pertaining to a root (of a plant).
- Pertaining to the basic or intrinsic nature of something.
- The most determined exertions of that authority, against them, only showed their radical independence.
- Synonyms: fundamental
- Antonyms: ignorable, trivial
- Thoroughgoing; far-reaching.
- The spread of the cancer required radical surgery, and the entire organ was removed.
- (lexicography, not comparable) Of or pertaining to the root of a word.
- (phonology, phonetics, not comparable, of a sound) Produced using the root of the tongue.
- Coordinate terms: coronal#English|coronal, dorsal#English|dorsal, labial#English|labial, laryngeal#English|laryngeal
- (chemistry, not comparable) Involving free radicals.
- (math) Relating to a radix or mathematical root.
- a radical quantity; a radical sign
- (slang, 1980s & 1990s) Excellent; awesome.
- That was a radical jump!
- (linguistics, in reference to words) primitive
- (linguistics, in reference to words) derivative, derived
- German: radikalisch
- Italian: radicalico
- Portuguese: radical
- German: Wurzel (compound)
- Italian: irrazionale
radical (plural radicals)
- (historical: 19th-century Britain) A member of the most progressive wing of the Liberal Party; someone favouring social reform (but generally stopping short of socialism).
- (historical: early 20th-century France) A member of an influential, centrist political party favouring moderate social reform, a republican constitution, and secular politics.
- A person with radical opinions.
- (arithmetic) A root (of a number or quantity).
(linguistics) In logographic writing systems such as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a character (if any) that provides an indication of its meaning, as opposed to phonetic. - (linguistics) In Semitic languages, any one of the set of consonants (typically three) that make up a root.
- (chemistry) A group of atoms, joined by covalent bonds, that take part in reactions as a single unit.
- (organic chemistry) A free radical.
- (algebra, commutative algebra, ring theory, of an ideal) Given an ideal I in a commutative ring R, another ideal, denoted Rad(I) or \sqrt{I}, such that an element x ∈ R is in Rad(I) if, for some positive integer n, xn ∈ I; equivalently, the intersection of all prime ideals containing I.
- (algebra, ring theory, of a ring) Given a ring R, an ideal containing elements of R that share a property considered, in some sense, "not good".
- (algebra, ring theory, of a module) The intersection of maximal submodules of a given module.
- (number theory) The product of the distinct prime factors of a given positive integer.
- nilradical
- Italian: radicale
- Russian: радика́л
- Italian: radicale
- Russian: ко́рень
- Italian: radicale
- Russian: радика́л
- Italian: radicale
- Italian: radicale
- Italian: radicale
- Italian: radicale
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