coronal
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ə noun
1.
a crown; coronet.
2.
a garland.
adjective
3.
of or pertaining to a coronal.
4.
Anatomy.
a.
of or pertaining to a corona.
b.
(of a plane along the long axis of the body) lying in the direction of the coronal suture.
c.
Also, frontal. lying in the direction of the frontal plane.
5.
Phonetics. (of a speech sound) articulated with the tip of the tongue, especially in a retroflex position.
6.
Linguistics. (in distinctive feature analysis) articulated with the blade of the tongue raised; dental, alveolar, or palato-alveolar.
7.
of or pertaining to the tip of the tongue.
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Coronal
is always a great word to know.
So is articulator. Does it mean:
| a movable organ, as the tongue, lips, or uvula, the action of which is involved in the production of speech sounds |
| a speech sound that by itself makes a syllable or subordinates to itself the other sounds in the syllable |
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World English Dictionary
| coronal | |
| —n | |
| 1. | poetic a circlet for the head; crown |
| 2. | a wreath or garland |
| 3. | anatomy short for coronal suture |
| —adj | |
| 4. | of or relating to a corona or coronal |
| 5. | phonetics a less common word for retroflex |
| [C16: from Late Latin corōnālis belonging to a | |
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Word Origin & History
coronal
1540s, "pertaining to a crown" (or, later, to one of the extended senses of L. corona), from Fr. coronal (16c.), from L. coronalis, from corona (see crown).
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
coronal cor·o·nal (kôr'ə-nəl, kə-rō'nəl)
adj.
Of or relating to a corona, especially of the head.
Of, relating to, or having the direction of the coronal suture or of the plane dividing the body into front and back portions.
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Example sentences
Coronal holes are magnetically open regions on the sun that send out streams of high-speed charged particles.
The point where the temporal line intersects the coronal suture.
For a time people speculated that the coronal emissions were due to coronium, a potential new element found only in the sun.
Rather, it's filled with vaguely banana-shaped plasma structures known as coronal loops.
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