radicals

'radicals'

[group.n.02] as in: (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule

'radicals'

[free_radical.n.01] as in: an atom or group of atoms with at least one unpaired electron; in the body it is usually an oxygen molecule that has lost an electron and will stabilize itself by stealing an electron from a nearby molecule

Examples:
in the body free radicals are high-energy particles that ricochet wildly and damage cells

'radicals'

[radical.n.03] as in: a person who has radical ideas or opinions

'radicals'

[radical.n.04] as in: (mathematics) a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity

'radicals'

[radical.n.05] as in: a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram

'radicals'

[root.n.03] as in: (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed

Examples:
thematic vowels are part of the stem

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