radial

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Medieval Latin radiālis (“radial”), from Latin radius. By surface analysis, radius + -al.

NURSE: Schroeder COMPLICATIONS: None CONDITION OF PATIENT: Fair (handwritten: also a partial transection of the superficial radial nerve or Ext. — Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, United States. Warren Commission
Because attraction between agent(s) and reagent(s) at all instants varied, with inverse proportion of increase and decrease, with incessant circular extension and radial reentrance. — Ulysses, James Joyce
As they returned in late afternoon the low sun was a solemnity of radial bands, like a heavenly fan of beaten gold; the limitless circle of the grain was a green sea rimmed with fog, and the willow wind-breaks were palmy isles. — Main Street, Sinclair Lewis

radial tire, radial-ply tire

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