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Ray

/ɹeɪ/

A beam of light or radiation.

📖 Definitions of "Ray"

noun
  1. 1

    A beam of light or radiation.

    "I saw a ray of light through the clouds."

  2. 2

    A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.

  3. 3

    One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.

  4. 4

    A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, such as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius.

verb
  1. 1

    To emit something as if in rays.

  2. 2

    To radiate as if in rays.

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