Word Meanings - STEARYL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The hypothetical radical characteristic of stearic acid.

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• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• RADICALNESS
  Quality or state of being radical.
• RADICAL
  Relating, or belonging, to the root, or ultimate source of derivation; as, a radical verbal form. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to the root; proceeding directly from the root. 2. Hence: Of or pertaining to the root or origin; reaching to the
• RADICALLY
  1. In a radical manner; at, or from, the origin or root; fundamentally; as, a scheme or system radically wrong or defective. 2. Without derivation; primitively; essentially. These great orbs thus radically bright. Prior.
• CHARACTERISTICALLY
  In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
• RADICALISM
  The quality or state of being radical; specifically, the doctrines or principles of radicals in politics or social reform. Radicalism means root work; the uprooting of all falsehoods and abuses. F. W. Robertson.
• CHARACTERISTICAL
  Characteristic.
• RADICALITY
  1. Germinal principle; source; origination. Sir T. Browne. 2. Radicalness; relation to root in essential to a root in essential nature or principle.
• STEARIC
  Pertaining to, or obtained from, stearin or tallow; resembling tallow. Stearic acid , a monobasic fatty acid, obtained in the form of white crystalline scales, soluble in alcohol and ether. It melts to an oily liquid at 69°C.C18H36O2,
• SPORADICAL
  Sporadic.
• EQUIRADICAL
  Equally radical. Coleridge.
• HYPOTHETIC; HYPOTHETICAL
  Characterized by, or of the nature of, an hypothesis; conditional; assumed without proof, for the purpose of reasoning and deducing proof, or of accounting for some fact or phenomenon. Causes hypothetical at least, if not real, for the
• SPORADICALLY
  In a sporadic manner.