Advertisement
Advertisement
coronal
[kawr-uh-nl, kor-, kuh-rohn-l, kawr-uh-nl, kor-]
noun
a crown; coronet.
a garland.
adjective
of or relating to a coronal.
Anatomy.
of or relating to a corona.
(of a plane along the long axis of the body) lying in the direction of the coronal suture.
Also lying in the direction of the frontal plane.
Phonetics., (of a speech sound) articulated with the tip of the tongue, especially in a retroflex position.
Linguistics., (in distinctive feature analysis) articulated with the blade of the tongue raised; dental, alveolar, or palato-alveolar.
of or relating to the tip of the tongue.
coronal
noun
poetic, a circlet for the head; crown
a wreath or garland
anatomy short for coronal suture
adjective
of or relating to a corona or coronal
phonetics a less common word for retroflex
Other Word Forms
- coronaled adjective
- coronally adverb
- noncoronal adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of coronal1
Example Sentences
Dahl said that another blast of solar material, known as a coronal mass ejection, is forecast to arrive in the United States midday Wednesday.
Earlier models suggested the heating that causes coronal rain should take hours or even days, yet solar flares occur within minutes.
Data from the Ulysses spacecraft showed that the fast solar wind originates mainly from vast coronal holes near the poles.
The heightened chance of a UK sighting has been caused by a fast-moving coronal mass ejection, which is a "release of plasma and magnetic field from the Sun's corona", late on Saturday night.
The most vivid auroras occur when the Sun emits large clouds of particles called coronal mass ejections.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse
