radical

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Or, here's a radical idea, why don't they put the options in a tree rather than a flat list?

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Quick take

(chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule

Meaning at a glance

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noun

(chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule

noun

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

noun

a person who has radical ideas or opinions

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for radical.

noun

(chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule

noun

a person who has radical ideas or opinions

noun

(mathematics) a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity

noun

a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram

noun

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"

adjective

(used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm; "extremist political views"; "radical opinions on education"; "an ultra conservative"

adjective

markedly new or introducing radical change; "a revolutionary discovery"; "radical political views"

adjective

arising from or going to the root or source; "a radical flaw in the plan"

adjective

of or relating to or constituting a linguistic root; "a radical verb form"

adjective

especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem; "basal placentation"; "radical leaves"

Example sentences

Or, here's a radical idea, why don't they put the options in a tree rather than a flat list?

You solve that out, but give no reason as to why you got rid of the 7 first, the 6 second, and the radical third.

For me, it came as a bolt from the sky, obviously radical and brilliant.

Yes, you're right, at this point, it would take something extremely radical to convince us that the NSA isn't spying on us anymore.

Despite most of the points in this post being debatable there's one bit that caught my eye: "Being nice will not help it, and CoffeeScript is not radical enough.

Is Vine really a radical new way to communicate, or is it merely the nadir of audiovisual culture, fragmenting the world into six-second shards of nothingness?

I think it would be fun to take another run at the same problem attempt to find a minimal, readable, and easier-to-learn language that fits in the same role as JavaScript but to do so with a much more radical design.

> "The incident illustrates that not even Wikileaks' former media partners are safe from the wrath of the organization's radical, pro-transparency agenda.

* False positives and guilt by association -- being flagged as a "person of interest" and then essentially persecuted because you have fringe ideological interests, are looking up a lot of info on terrorism for a book project, have a friend who knows radical Muslims, etc.

"Wait, pointing out a clear conflict of interest and censorship is being "radically pro-transparency"?I don't believe in WikiLeak's mantra that all information, regardless of context, should be transparent, but since when is releasing information about a clear abuse radical in any way whatsoever?