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Radiant   /rˈeɪdiənt/  /rˈeɪdjənt/   Listen
adjective
Radiant  adj.  
1.
Emitting or proceeding as from a center; resembling rays; radiating; radiate.
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. "Mark what radiant state she spreads."
3.
Beaming with vivacity and happiness; as, a radiant face.
4.
(Her.) Giving off rays; said of a bearing; as, the sun radiant; a crown radiant.
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.
6.
(Physics) Emitted or transmitted by radiation; as, a radiant energy; radiant heat.
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.


noun
Radiant  n.  
1.
(Opt.) The luminous point or object from which light emanates; also, a body radiating light brightly.
2.
(Geom.) A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve.
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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"Radiant" Quotes from Famous Books



... those qualities in her I had termed taste and fancy ought rather to have been denominated judgment and imagination. When I intimated so much, which I did as usual in dry and stinted phrase, I looked for the radiant and exulting smile my one word of eulogy had elicited before; but Frances coloured. If she did smile, it was very softly and shyly; and instead of looking up to me with a conquering glance, her eyes rested on my hand, ...
— The Professor • (AKA Charlotte Bronte) Currer Bell
... rather in the outward state Of Song's immortal temple lay me down, A beggar basking by that radiant gate, Than bend beneath the ...
— Poets of the South • F.V.N. Painter
... settled in Ireland, and which professed the Roman Catholic religion. In the gay crowd which thronged Whitehall, during those scandalous years of jubilee which immediately followed the Restoration, the Hamiltons were preeminently conspicuous. The long fair ringlets, the radiant bloom, and the languishing blue eyes of the lovely Elizabeth still charm us on the canvass of Lely. She had the glory of achieving no vulgar conquest. It was reserved for her voluptuous beauty and for her flippant ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 3 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... the globe. The terrestrial crust, thin and incompletely hardened, allowed it to spread through its pores. This caused a peculiar form of vegetation, such as is probably produced on the surface of the inferior planets, Venus or Mercury, which revolve nearer than our earth around the radiant ...
— The Underground City • Jules Verne
... been unwarily affected, even by a much larger quantity of the pure article; perhaps by way of compensation an electric spark from Uncle Coffin's own personality had entered into this compound. More likely still, it was the radiant atmosphere. ...
— Vesty of the Basins • Sarah P. McLean Greene


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