RADIATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does radiating mean? 

• RADIATING (adjective)
  The adjective RADIATING has 1 sense:

1. diverging from a common point

  Familiarity information: RADIATING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RADIATING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Diverging from a common point

Similar:

divergent; diverging (tending to move apart in different directions)

 Context examples 

The cells have broad, non-tapering processes radiating towards a central blood vessel.

(Astroblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A ring of smooth muscle consisting of circular and radiating fibers within the middle layer of the eye.

(Ciliary Muscle, NCI Thesaurus)

Then One Eye, creeping and crawling, every sense on the alert, every hair radiating infinite suspicion, joined her.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A sensation similar to an electrical shock radiating from the back of the head down the spine as the neck is bent forward.

(Lhermitte's sign, NCI Dictionary)

He rose and showed a double-radiating disc round the keyhole.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In front, amid radiating lines of poplars, lay the riverside townlet of Cardillac—gray walls, white houses, and a feather of blue smoke.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

LRO's thermal radiometer, called Diviner, has taught scientists how much heat is radiating off the Moon’s surface, a critical factor in determining crater ages.

(Moon Data Sheds Light on Earth’s Asteroid Impact History, NASA)

The air above has to cool off, radiating its heat to space, before its density is greater than that of the hot, wet air below.

(Study Explains Saturn's Epic Tantrums, NASA)

Clinical signs include Horner's syndrome, shoulder pain radiating down the arm in the ulnar distribution followed by edema and atrophy of the affected extremity.

(Pancoast Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

The 60 to 80 radiating pigmented ridges that form a frilled circle around the eye lens behind the iris.

(Ciliary Process, NCI Thesaurus)