Radical

Meaning

Adj

●

Favoring

change, or change at the

of a matter.

●

In Botany:

Pertaining to a

(of a plant).

●

Pertaining to the

or

of something.

●

Thoroughgoing; far-reaching.

●

In Lexicography:

Of or

to the

of a word.

●

In Phonetics & Phonology:

Produced using the

of the tongue.

●

In Chemistry:

Involving

radicals.

●

In Mathematics:

Relating to a

or

root.

●

Excellent; awesome.

Noun

●

In People & Politics:

A

of the most

of the Liberal Party; someone

social

(but

socialism).

●

A

of an

,

political party

social

, a

, and

politics.

●

A person with

opinions.

●

In Arithmetic:

A

(of a number or quantity).

●

In Linguistics:

In

writing systems

such as the Chinese

, the

of a

(if any) that provides an

of its

,

phonetic.

●

In Celtic & Linguistics:

In Celtic

,

to the

,

underlying form

of an

which can be further

under the Celtic

mutations.

●

In Linguistics & Semitic linguistics:

In Semitic

,

of the set of

(typically three) that

a root.

●

In Chemistry:

A group of

,

by

, that

in

as a

unit.

●

In Organic chemistry:

A

radical.

●

In Algebra:

Given an

I in a

commutative ring

R, another

,

Rad(I) or √,

an

∈ R is in Rad(I) if, for some positive

,

ⁿ ∈ I;

, the

I.

●

In Algebra:

Given

R, an

of R that

a

considered, in some

, "not good".

●

In Algebra:

The

of

of a given module.

●

In Number theory:

The product of the

of a given positive integer.

Sourced from

Origin

radical

English

radical

French

radicalis

Latin

radix

Latin

ῥάδιξ

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

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