radiant
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- Radiating light and/or heat.
- Emitted as radiation.
- Beaming with vivacity and happiness.
- Strikingly beautiful.
- Emitting or proceeding as if from a center.
- Giving off rays.
- Having a ray-like appearance, like the large marginal flowers of certain umbelliferous plants; said also of the cluster which has such marginal flowers.
Noun
- A point source from which radiation is emitted.
- The apparent origin, in the night sky, of a meteor shower.
- A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve.
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