Synonyms: ray
Definition: cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins
Similar words: selachian, elasmobranch
Definition: any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales: sharks; rays; skates
Synonyms: ray
Definition: any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish
Similar words: spine
Definition: a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin
Definition: the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization
Similar words: solfa syllable
Definition: one of the names for notes of a musical scale in solmization
Synonyms: beam, beam of light, shaft, shaft of light, ray, ray of light, irradiation, light beam
Definition: a column of light (as from a beacon)
Similar words: light, visible light, visible radiation
Definition: (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
Usage: the light was filtered through a soft glass window
Synonyms: ray, beam, electron beam
Definition: a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation
Similar words: electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic wave, nonparticulate radiation
Definition: radiation consisting of waves of energy associated with electric and magnetic fields resulting from the acceleration of an electric charge
Synonyms: ray
Definition: a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence
Similar words: pedicel, pedicle
Definition: a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle
Synonyms: ray
Definition: (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point
Similar words: vector
Definition: a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction
Definition: expose to radiation
Usage: irradiate food
Definition: subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition
Usage: process cheese; process hair; treat the water so it can be drunk; treat the lawn with chemicals; treat an oil spill
Definition: extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center
Usage: spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel; This plants radiate spines in all directions
Similar words: extend, run, lead, go, pass
Definition: stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
Usage: Service runs all the way to Cranbury; His knowledge doesn't go very far; My memory extends back to my fourth year of life; The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets
Synonyms: ray
Definition: emit as rays
Usage: That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky
Similar words: give off, give out, emit
Definition: give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.
Usage: The ozone layer blocks some harmful rays which the sun emits