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radiate (third-person singular simple presentradiates, present participleradiating, simple past and past participleradiated)
To extend, send or spread out from a center like radii.
1948 November and December, “Crewe M.P.D. to be Modernised”, in Railway Magazine, page 372:
Crewe North Motive Power Depot is to be modernised completely. This includes the provision of a new coaling plant, ash handling plant, and two new locomotive sheds of the latest roundhouse type, each with 32 roads radiating from a 70-ft. dia. turntable.
1994, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates:
Oban is not a terminus; its routes radiate by sea, rail and road.
2021 May 19, Philip Haigh, “Doncaster enhancements relying on DfT approval”, in RAIL, number 931, page 30:
Doncaster is a rail hub in every sense. Passenger lines radiate in six directions, there are freight lines that bypass the station, extensive freight yards, a major works, and a rolling stock depot.
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Radiating from a center; having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated.
a radiate crystal
Surrounded by rays, such as the head of a saint in a religious picture; (heraldry)radiant.
1915, Guy Cadogan Rothery, A. B. C. of Heraldry, page 240:
[…] and (2) the radiate or Eastern crown, usually five rays being shown. The see of Ely bears the apocryphal coat of St. Ethelreda: gules, three open crowns or. Azure, three open crowns or, are the arms of[…]
2005, Rebecca R. Raines, Signal Corps, Department of the Army, page 117:
On a wreath of the colors argent and tenné four lightning flashes barbed radiate pilewise of the first, a Roman helm or garnished gules.
(botany) Having parts radiating from the center, like the petals in many flowers.