Radiant vs Sector - What's the difference?
radiant | sector |
Radiating light and/or heat.
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Emitted as radiation.
Beaming with vivacity and happiness.
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*:His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ “Phil?! You?! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow?!” recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
Emitting or proceeding as if from a center.
(lb) Giving off rays; said of a bearing.
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(lb) Having a ray-like appearance, like the large marginal flowers of certain umbelliferous plants; said also of the cluster which has such marginal flowers.
A point source from which radiation is emitted.
(astronomy) The apparent origin, in the night sky, of a meteor shower.
A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve.
section
zone (designated area).
(geometry) part of a circle, extending to the center
(computing) fixed-sized unit (traditionally 512 bytes) of sequential data stored on a track of a digital medium (compare to block)
(military) an area designated by boundaries within which a unit operates, and for which it is responsible
(military) one of the subdivisions of a coastal frontier
(science fiction) a fictional region of space designated for navigational or governance purposes; for instance, ,
(calculation) an instrument consisting of two rulers of equal length joined by a hinge
a field of economic activity
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As nouns the difference between radiant and sector
is that radiant is a point source from which radiation is emitted while sector is section.As an adjective radiant
is radiating light and/or heat.radiant
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Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----sector
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(wikipedia sector)Noun
(en noun)W
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}