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IPA transcription: ['ɹædɪkəlz]
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Noun
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(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
“thematic vowels are part of the stem”
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(chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule
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an atom or group of atoms with at least one unpaired electron; in the body it is usually an oxygen molecule that has lost an electron and will stabilize itself by stealing an electron from a nearby molecule
“in the body free radicals are high-energy particles that ricochet wildly and damage cells”
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a person who has radical ideas or opinions
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(mathematics) a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity
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a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram
Usage examples
- Radicals like Joseph Priestley pursued scientific investigation while advocating democracy.
- Detrosier's activities and writings would be influential amongst Manchester Radicals and the later Chartists.
- Both dioxygen and the superoxide anion are free radicals that exhibit paramagnetism.
- In the initiation process, some event causes free radicals to be formed.
- The activities of the radicals at the convention did bring them some national press.
- She was one of the handful of European Radicals in Sri Lanka.
- Radicals alter blood cell membrane properties.
- After the war the Radicals controlled the Joint Committee on Reconstruction.
- Some quintics may be solved in terms of radicals.
- These radicals are used to destroy pathogens in a process termed the respiratory burst.