different between radial vs tangential

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin radi?lis (“radial”), from Latin radius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?di.?l/

Adjective

radial (comparative more radial, superlative most radial)

1. Arranged like rays that radiate from, or converge to a common centre.
2. Moving along a radius.
3. (anatomy) Of, or relating to the radius bone.
4. (entomology) Of, or relating to the radius (vein), and/or the wing areas next to it.
5. (botany) Developing uniformly on all sides.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

radial (plural radials)

1. A radial tire / radial tyre.

Translations

Anagrams

• Alarid, Ardila

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?di?a?l/

Adjective

radial (not comparable)

1. radial

Declension

Adverb

radial

1. radially

Romanian

Etymology

From French radial

Adjective

radial m or n (feminine singular radial?, masculine plural radiali, feminine and neuter plural radiale)

1. radial

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

radio +? -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ra?djal/, [ra?ð?jal]

Adjective

radial (plural radiales)

1. radial
2. (relational) radio

Derived terms

Related terms

• radio

Noun

radial m (plural radiales)

1. (geometry) radian

Further reading

• “radial” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

tangent +? -ial.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæn?d??n.t??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæn?d??nt.??l/, /tæn?d??n.??l/

Adjective

tangential (comparative more tangential, superlative most tangential)

1. Referring to a tangent, moving at a tangent to something.
2. Merely touching, positioned as a tangent.
   • 1898, Gary Nathan Calkins, Mitosis in Noctiluca miliaris and its bearing on the nuclear relations of the Protozoa and Metazoa, Ph.D. Thesis, page 3

     The archoplasm divides and forms a very large spindle which first lies tangential to the surface of the nucleus.

3. Only indirectly related.

   That subject is tangential to our discussion, and we cannot let it distract us.

Derived terms

• tangentially

Related terms

• tangent

Translations

Anagrams

• antitangle