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radical | a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram | |
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radical | arising from or going to the root or source | |
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radical | a person who has radical ideas or opinions | |
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radical, group, chemical group | [in chemistry] two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule | |
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radical, basal | [in botany] especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem | |
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stem, root, base, theme, root word, radical | [in linguistics] the form of a word after all affixes are removed | |
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radical | [in linguistics] of or relating to or constituting a linguistic root | |
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radical, ultra, extremist | (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm | |
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radical | [in mathematics] a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity | |
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radical, free radical | 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 | |
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revolutionary, radical | markedly new or introducing radical change |