Diccionario ingles.comDiccionario ingles.com
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Rad   /ræd/   Listen
Rad

noun
1.
A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
2.
The unit of plane angle adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to the angle at the center of a circle subtended by an arc equal in length to the radius (approximately 57.295 degrees).  Synonym: radian.



Related searches:
milliradian
radioactivity unit


WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Rad" Quotes from Famous Books



... his ladye, feir of face, She seyd, "Without consent of me, That an Outlaw suld cum befor a King; I am right rad[108] of treasonrie. Bid him be gude to his lordis at hame, For Edinburgh my lord ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3) • Walter Scott
... do," remarked Tom, after testing the magneto, and finding that it gave a fat, hot spark. "That ought to send us along in good shape. Got all the gas in, Rad?" ...
— Tom Swift in Captivity • Victor Appleton
... Taillefer, der so gerne singt 5 Im Hofe, wenn er das Rad am Brunnen schwingt, Im Saale, wann er das Feuer schueret und facht, Wann er abends sich legt und wann ...
— A Book Of German Lyrics • Various


Words linked to "Rad" :   angular unit, radian


Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com