Word Meanings - ASTERIATED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Radiated, with diverging rays; as, asteriated sapphire.

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• RADIATIFORM
  Having the marginal florets enlarged and radiating but not ligulate, as in the capitula or heads of the cornflower, Gray.
• RADIATE-VEINED
  Having the principal veins radiating, or diverging, from the apex of the petiole; -- said of such leaves as those of the grapevine, most maples, and the castor-oil plant.
• RADIATION
  1. The act of radiating, or the state of being radiated; emission and diffusion of rays of light; beamy brightness. 2. The shooting forth of anything from a point or surface, like the diverging rays of light; as, the radiation of heat.
• RADIATOR
  That which radiates or emits rays, whether of light or heat; especially, that part of a heating apparatus from which the heat is radiated or diffused; as, a stream radiator.
• DIVERGE
  Etym: 1. To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate ; -- opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun.
• DIVERGEMENT
  Divergence.
• SAPPHIRE
  Native alumina or aluminium sesquioxide, Al2O3; corundum; esp., the blue transparent variety of corundum, highly prized as a gem. of rubies, sapphires, and of pearlés white. Chaucer. Note: Sapphire occurs in hexagonal crystals and also in granular
• RADIATED
  Belonging to the Radiata. (more info) 1. Emitted, or sent forth, in rays or direct lines; as, radiated heat. 2. Formed of, or arranged like, rays or radii; having parts or markings diverging, like radii, from a common center or axis; as, a radiated
• RADIATA
  An extensive artificial group of invertebrates, having all the parts arranged radially around the vertical axis of the body, and the various organs repeated symmetrically in each ray or spheromere. Note: It includes the coelenterates and
• RADIATE
  1. To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine. Virtues shine more clear In them , and radiant like the sun at noon. Howell. 2. To proceed in direct lines from a point or surface; to issue in rays, as light or heat. Light radiates from luminous bodies
• DIVERGENT
  Causing divergence of rays; as, a divergent lens. 3. Fig.: Disagreeing from something given; differing; as, a divergent statement. Divergent series. See Diverging series, under Diverging. (more info) 1. Receding farther and farther from each
• DIVERGING
  Tending in different directions from a common center; spreading apart; divergent. Diverging series , a series whose terms are larger as the series is extended; a series the sum of whose terms does not approach a finite limit when the series is
• RADIATIVE
  Capable of radiating; acting by radiation. Tyndall.
• RADIATELY
  In a radiate manner; with radiation or divergence from a center.
• DIVERGINGLY
  In a diverging manner.
• ASTERIATED
  Radiated, with diverging rays; as, asteriated sapphire.
• DIVERGENCE; DIVERGENCY
  1. A receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines. Rays come to the eye in a state of divergency. 2. Disagreement; difference. Related with some
• TRIRADIATE; TRIRADIATED
  Having three rays.
• CORRADIATION
  A conjunction or concentration of rays in one point. Bacom
• UNIRADIATED
  Having but one ray.
• IRRADIATION
  The apparent enlargement of a bright object seen upon a dark ground, due to the fact that the portions of the retina around the image are stimulated by the intense light; as when a dark spot on a white ground appears smaller, or a white spot on
• CORRADIATE
  To converge to one point or focus, as light or rays.
• IRRADIATE
  1. To throw rays of light upon; to illuminate; to brighten; to adorn with luster. Thy smile irradiates yon blue fields. Sir W. Jones. 2. To enlighten intellectually; to illuminate; as, to irradiate the mind. Bp. Bull. 3. To animate by
• ERADIATION
  Emission of radiance.
• SEXRADIATE
  Having six rays; -- said of certain sponge spicules. See Illust. of Spicule.
• WATER SAPPHIRE
  A deep blue variety of iolite, sometimes used as a gem; -- called also saphir d'eau.