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ray

English

  1. 🔊 cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside
  2. 🔊 any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish
  3. 🔊 a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence
  4. 🔊 (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point
  5. 🔊 the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization
  6. 🔊 a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation
  7. 🔊 a column of light (as from a beacon)
  8. 🔊 emit as rays
    “That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky”
  9. 🔊 expose to radiation
    “irradiate food”
  10. 🔊 extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center
    “spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 semirrecta ray, half-line

Similar words

re beam beam of light light beam ray of light shaft shaft of light irradiation beam electron beam irradiate radiate reptilia x ray actinic ray actinism amplitude antinode atom atomic beam atomic ray beam beam of light crest