English dictionary

radicles Meaning & Definition

What Does Radicles Mean?

Radicles is a noun that means plural of radicle.

(historical: 19th-century Britain) A member of the most progressive wing of the Liberal Party; someone favouring social reform (but generally stopping short of socialism).
(historical: early 20th-century France) A member of an influential, centrist political party favouring moderate social reform, a republican constitution, and secular politics.
A person with radical opinions.
A root (of a number or quantity).
In logographic writing systems such as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a character (if any) that provides an indication of its meaning, as opposed to phonetic.
In Semitic languages, any one of the set of consonants (typically three) that make up a root.
A group of atoms, joined by covalent bonds, that take part in reactions as a single unit.
A free radical.
(commutative algebra, of an ideal) Given an ideal I in a commutative ring R, another ideal, denoted Rad(I) or \sqrt{I}, such that an element x ∈ R is in Rad(I) if, for some positive integer n, xn ∈ I; equivalently, the intersection of all prime ideals containing I.
(of a ring) Given a ring R, an ideal containing elements of R that share a property considered, in some sense, "not good".
(of a module) The intersection of maximal submodules of a given module.
The product of the distinct prime factors of a given positive integer.

The rudimentary shoot of a plant which supports the cotyledons in the seed, and from which the root is developed downward; the root of the embryo.
A rootlet.