See Also: elaborative(medicine)

radiator (iou) and elaborative (medicine)


radiator (iou)



radiator noun. M19.
[from RADIATE verb + -OR.]
A thing which radiates something (esp. light, heat, or sound waves). M19.
W. T. Brande Polished metals are very imperfect radiators..of heat.
A small chamber, tank, or compact array of pipes usu. with a large surface area, heated by steam, hot air, or (now usu.) circulating hot water and giving off warmth into a room etc. by radiation and convection. M19.
N. Mailer She has..neglected to turn off the radiator.
In a liquid cooling system (as in some internal-combustion engines), a bank of thin tubes in which circulating fluid (freq. water) is cooled by the surrounding air. E20.
An aerial for transmitting (and often also receiving) Radio waves. E20.

elaborative (medicine)


elaborative


Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labour and minute attention to details.

<psychology> Elaborative faculty, the intellectual power of discerning relations and of viewing objects by means of, or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought.

Source: Websters Dictionary