Radiant

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Radiant \Ra"di*ant\, n.
     1. (Opt.) The luminous point or object from which light
        emanates; also, a body radiating light brightly.
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     2. (Geom.) A straight line proceeding from a given point, or


        fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve.
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     3. (Astron.) The point in the heavens at which the apparent
        paths of shooting stars meet, when traced backward, or
        whence they appear to radiate.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Radiant \Ra"di*ant\ (r[=a]"d[i^]*ant), a. [L. radians, -antis,
     p. pr. of radiare to emit rays or beams, fr. radius ray: cf.
     F. radiant. See {Radius}, {Ray} a divergent line.]
     1. Emitting or proceeding as from a center; resembling rays;
        radiating; radiate.
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     2. Especially, emitting or darting rays of light or heat;
        issuing in beams or rays; beaming with brightness;
        emitting a vivid light or splendor; as, the radiant sun.
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              Mark what radiant state she spreads.  --Milton.
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     3. Beaming with vivacity and happiness; as, a radiant face.
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     4. (Her.) Giving off rays; -- said of a bearing; as, the sun
        radiant; a crown radiant.
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     5. (Bot.) Having a raylike appearance, as the large marginal
        flowers of certain umbelliferous plants; -- said also of
        the cluster which has such marginal flowers.
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     6. (Physics) Emitted or transmitted by radiation; as, a
        radiant energy; radiant heat.
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     {Radiant energy} (Physics), energy given out or transmitted
        by radiation, as in the case of light and radiant heat.
  
     {Radiant heat}, heat proceeding in right lines, or directly
        from the heated body, after the manner of light, in
        distinction from heat conducted or carried by intervening
        media.
  
     {Radiant point}. (Astron.) See {Radiant}, n., 3.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  radiant
       adj : radiating or as if radiating light; "the beaming sun"; "the
             effulgent daffodils"; "a radiant sunrise"; "a refulgent
             sunset" [syn: {beaming}, {beamy}, {effulgent}, {refulgent}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  227 Moby Thesaurus words for "radiant":
     ablaze, aerolite, aglow, alight, all-knowing, all-powerful,
     all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, arbor, axis, axle, axle bar,
     axle shaft, axle spindle, axle-tree, beaming, beamy, beatific,
     beatified, blazing, blessed, blissful, blithe, blithesome,
     blooming, blushing, bolide, boundless, bright, bright and sunny,
     brilliant, bubbling, bubbly, burning, candescent, capering,
     changeless, charismatic, cheerful, cheery, chirping, chondrite,
     coruscating, cosmic dust, creating, creative, dancing, dazzling,
     delighted, devastating, distaff, divine, ecstatic, effulgent,
     elated, eternal, eternally the same, eupeptic, euphoric,
     everlasting, exalted, exhilarated, exultant, fireball, flushed,
     flushed with joy, flushing, fulcrum, fulgent, gay, genial, gimbal,
     glad, gladsome, glamorous, gleaming, gleamy, gleeful, glinting,
     glistening, glittering, glorious, glossy, glowing, good, gorgeous,
     gudgeon, hallowed, happy, heavenly, high, highest, hinge, hingle,
     holy, hopeful, hub, illuminant, illustrious, immortal, immutable,
     in good spirits, in heaven, in high spirits, in seventh heaven,
     incandescent, infinite, irradiative, irrepressible, joyful, joyous,
     jubilant, just, killing, lambent, lamping, laughing, leaping,
     light as day, limitless, loving, lucent, luciferous, lucific,
     luciform, luminant, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent,
     luminous, lustrous, magic, majestic, making, mandrel, merciful,
     meteor, meteor crater, meteor dust, meteor shower, meteor swarm,
     meteor trail, meteor train, meteoric shower, meteorite, meteoroid,
     meteorolite, micrometeorite, micrometeoroid, nave, numinous,
     oarlock, of good cheer, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient,
     on cloud nine, one, optimistic, orient, overjoyed, permanent,
     perpetual, phosphorescent, pin, pintle, pivot, pleasant, pole,
     purring, radiant point, rapturous, raving, ravishing, refulgent,
     resplendent, rhapsodic, riant, rosy, rowlock, rutilant, rutilous,
     sacred, sanguine, sanguineous, scintillating, shaping, shimmering,
     shining, shiny, shooting star, siderite, siderolite, singing,
     smiling, smirking, sovereign, sparkling, spindle, splendent,
     splendid, splendorous, splendrous, starbright, starlike, starry,
     starry-eyed, streaming, stunning, sublime, suffused, sunny,
     sunshiny, supreme, swivel, tektite, thrice happy, timeless,
     trunnion, twinkling, ubiquitous, unbounded, unchanging, undefined,
     unlimited, winsome
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Radiant, VA
    Zip code(s): 22732