EGAVE

ray

About 27.62 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. symbol ISO 639-3 language code for Rapa.
  2. noun A beam of light or radiation.
    I saw a ray of light through the clouds.
  3. noun A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
  4. noun One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
  5. noun A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, such as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius.
  6. noun Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
  7. noun A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
  8. verb To emit something as if in rays.

Similar words

radiate irradiate ray of light beam shaft re beam of light light beam shaft of light searchlight

Often followed by

of diffraction and tube is beam examination was film

Word family

John Ray Nicholas Ray Ray Satyajit Ray rayed raying rays re

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