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radiational, a.|reɪdɪˈeɪʃənəl| [f. prec. + -al1.] Of, pertaining to, or involving radiation.
1902Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 213/1 This wider theory [of the electric telegraph] is founded upon Maxwell's theory of electromagnetic radiation, and may be accordingly termed the radiational theory. 1949Koestler Insight & Outlook xi. 156 The ‘particles’ in the atom..are capable of persisting as functional wholes in the teeth of mechanical, thermal and radiational disturbances. 1964M. McLuhan Understanding Media (1967) xix. 198 The wheel and the road expressed and advanced this explosion by a radiational or center-margin pattern. 1969Sci. Jrnl. Jan. 64/2 Analysis of the tides at other localities suggests that the ratio of radiational: gravitational tide of O-2 is fairly typical. Hence radiˈationally adv.
1969R. B. Fuller Operating Man. Spaceship Earth vi. 76, I would like to inventory rapidly the system variables which I find to be by far the most powerful in consideration of our present life-regenerating evolution aboard our spaceship as it is continually refueled radiationally by the Sun and other cosmic radiation. |