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English Dictionary: radiating by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
radiating
adj
  1. diverging from a common point
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Radiate \Ra"di*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Radiated}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Radiating}.] [L. radiatus, p. p. of radiare to
      furnish with spokes or rays, to radiate, fr. radius. See
      {Radius}, {Ray} a divergent line.]
      1. To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine.
  
                     Virtues shine more clear In them [kings], and
                     radiant like the sun at noon.            --Howell.
  
      2. To proceed in direct lines from a point or surface; to
            issue in rays, as light or heat.
  
                     Light radiates from luminous bodies directly to our
                     eyes.                                                --Locke.
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