radiant
adjective
emitting rays of light; shining; bright.
radiants
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pluralof radiant.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The radiants carried them away, and I saw them no more.
From Lilith, a romance by George MacDonald
He gave a bound, remaining fastened to the ground by one of his radiants, and raised the others like a bundle of reptiles.
From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
These nodal points will not, however, afford a general explanation of the many-branched radiants.
From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly
The order of their power as radiants and absorbents is that here indicated, bisulphide of carbon being the feeblest, and amylene the strongest of the six.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
These are described as "meteors with stationary radiants," since for months together they seem to come from the same fixed points in the sky.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
