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1.noun(historical: 19th-century Britain) A member of the most progressive wing of the Liberal Party; someone favouring social reform (but generally stopping short of socialism).
2.noun(historical: early 20th-century France) A member of an influential, centrist political party favouring moderate social reform, a republican constitution, and secular politics.
3.nounA person with radical opinions.
4.nounA root (of a number or quantity).
5.nounIn logographic writing systems such as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a character (if any) that provides an indication of its meaning, as opposed to phonetic.
6.nounIn Semitic languages, any one of the set of consonants (typically three) that make up a root.
7.nounA group of atoms, joined by covalent bonds, that take part in reactions as a single unit.
8.nounA free radical.
9.noun(commutative algebra, of an ideal) Given an ideal I in a commutative ring R, another ideal, denoted Rad(I) or \sqrt{I}, such that an element x ∈ R is in Rad(I) if, for some positive integer n, xn ∈ I; equivalently, the intersection of all prime ideals containing I.
10.noun(of a ring) Given a ring R, an ideal containing elements of R that share a property considered, in some sense, "not good".
11.noun(of a module) The intersection of maximal submodules of a given module.
12.nounThe product of the distinct prime factors of a given positive integer.
13.nounThe rudimentary shoot of a plant which supports the cotyledons in the seed, and from which the root is developed downward; the root of the embryo.
14.nounA rootlet.