radiate: 意味と定義

To send out rays or waves.

To issue or emerge in rays or waves: Heat radiated from the stove.

To extend in straight lines from or toward a center; diverge or converge like rays: Spokes radiate from a wheel hub.

Ecology To spread into new habitats and thereby diverge or diversify. Used of a group of organisms.

To emit (light, for example) in or as if in rays.

To send or spread out from or as if from a center: a cactus that radiates spines.

To irradiate or illuminate (an object).

To manifest in a glowing manner: a leader who radiates confidence.

Botany Having rays or raylike parts, as in the flower heads of daisies.

Biology Characterized by radial symmetry.

Surrounded with rays: a radiate head on a coin.