Coronal vs Coronae - What's the difference?
coronal | coronae |
A crown or coronet.
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*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.5:
*:That shall embellish more your beautie bright, / And crowne your heades with heavenly coronall , / Such as the Angels weare before Gods tribunall!
A wreath or garland of flowers.
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(obsolete) A variant of colonel.
The frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronae or garlands.
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(label) A consonant produced with the tip or blade of the tongue.
relating to a crown or coronation
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(astronomy) relating to the corona of a star
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(botany) relating to the corona of a flower
(phonetics) relating to a sound made with the tip or blade of the tongue
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(anatomy) a "coronal plane" or a "coronal section" divides a body into dorsal (back) and ventral (front)
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(corona)
A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.
(star) The luminous plasma atmosphere of the Sun or other star, extending millions of kilometres into space, most easily seen during a total solar eclipse,
(biology) Any crown-like appendage of a plant or animal.
(electricity) corona discharge
As nouns the difference between coronal and coronae
is that coronal is a crown or coronet while coronae is (corona).As an adjective coronal
is relating to a crown or coronation.coronal
English
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(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)- The law and his coronal oath require his undeniable assent to what laws the Parliament agree upon.
- The coronal light during the eclipse is faint.
- Coronal' holes are darker, cooler regions of the sun's atmosphere, or corona, containing little solar material. In these gaps, magnetic field lines whip out into the solar wind rather than looping back to the sun's surface. ' Coronal holes can affect space weather, as they send solar particles streaming off the sun about three times faster than the slower wind unleashed elsewhere from the sun's atmosphere, according to a description from NASA.