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Radical
RAD'ICAL, a. [L. radicalis, from radix, root. See Race and Ray.]
1. Pertaining to the root or origin; original; fundamental; as a radical truth or error; a radical evil; a radical difference of opinions or systems.
2. Implanted by nature; native; constitutional; as the radical moisture of a body.
3. Primitive; original; underived; uncompounded; as a radical word.
4. Serving to origination.
5. In botany, proceeding immediately from the root; as a radical leaf or peduncle.
RAD'ICAL, n.
1. In philology, a primitive word; a radix, root, or simple underived uncompounded word.
2. A primitive letter; a letter that belongs to the radix.
3. in chimistry, an element, or a simple constituent part of a substance, which is incapable of decomposition.
That which constitutes the distinguishing part of an acid, by its union with oxygen.
Compound radical is the base of an acid composed of two or more substances. Thus a vegetable acid having a radical composed of hydrogen and carbon, is said to be an acid with a compound radical.
Radical quantities, in algebra, quantities whose roots may be accurately expressed in numbers. The term is sometimes extended to all quantities under the radical sign.
radical appears in definitions for these words:
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Aceetate Acetated Acetic Acid Air Anti-chamber Appeal At Avener Azote Bank Barge Baron Be Behoof Besides Blaze Boy Charge Cling Clot Clutch Con Cone Crook Derivable Dialectical Dike Dispute Drink Eradicative Essay Etymology Exert Expiate Expose Fable Fairy Feminine Fire Flatter Fleet Flock For Formative Frantic Freeze Fresh Fulsome Gleam Grind Heterogeneous I Iron Jugular Know Lich Lickerish Light Lurch May Moment Mow Neglect Number Peck Penny Persevere Plate Plump Point Primary Primitive Puke Pup Quick Radical Radicality Radically Radicalness Reach Resign Roam Rooted Saffron Salt Say Secret Seminal Show Silly Snub Sole Sort Spawn Spick Spoke Spot Spray Stab Stand Step-son Strong Subsalt Swarm Sway Taint Take Theme To Tway-blade Vapid Verdant Vinegar Virtue Wink Worse Ye
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