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radiant

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Adjective

  1. Radiating light and/or heat.
  2. Emitted as radiation.
  3. Beaming with vivacity and happiness.
  4. Strikingly beautiful.
  5. Emitting or proceeding as if from a center.
  6. Giving off rays.
  7. 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

  1. A point source from which radiation is emitted.
  2. The apparent origin, in the night sky, of a meteor shower.
  3. A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve.

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