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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
approaching, asymptotic, centripetal, centrolineal, concurrent, confluent, confocal, connivent, converging, focal, meeting, mutually approaching, radial, radiate, radiated, radiative, rayed, tangent, tangential, uniting
Dictionary Results for radiating:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
radiating
    adj 1: diverging from a common point

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Radiate \Ra"di*ate\ (r[=a]"d[i^]*[=a]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
   Radiated (r[=a]"d[i^]*[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
   Radiating.] [L. radiatus, p. p. of radiare to furnish with
   spokes or rays, to radiate, fr. radius ray. See Radius,
   Ray a divergent line.]
   1. To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine.
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            Virtues shine more clear
            In them [kings], and radiate like the sun at noon.
                                                  --Howell.
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   2. To proceed in direct lines from a point or surface; to
      issue in rays, as light or heat.
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            Light radiates from luminous bodies directly to our
            eyes.                                 --Locke.
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