Definition of Biradial

1. Adjective. Showing both bilateral and radial symmetry. "Some sea anemones are biradial"

Similar to: Symmetric, Symmetrical

Definition of Biradial

1. having dual symmetry [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Biradial

bipyridine
bipyridines
bipyridinium
bipyridyl
biquadrate
biquadratic
biquadratic equation
biquadratic polynomial
biquadratically
biquadratics
biquinary
biquintile
biracial
biracialism
biracialisms
biradial (current term)
biradially
biradiate
biradiated
biradical
biradicaloid
biradicals
biramose
biramous
biraphid
biraryl
birational
birationality
birationally
birch

Literary usage of Biradial

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lectures on Quaternions: Containing a Systematic Statement of a New by William Rowan Hamilton (1853)
"... plan that we should assist ourselves by the conception and construction of those biradial figures, of which the nature has been already explained. 96. ..."

2. A Treatise on the Analytical Geometry of the Point, Line, Circle, and Conic by John Casey (1893)
"... F'. p, p' are the biradial co-ordinates of P. The biangular co-ordinates of P are cot F'FP = A, cot FF'P = p. SECTION III. ..."

3. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1891)
"A feature of the development in the biradial types calls for special mention ; that is, the reversal of the arrangement of the musculature of the first pair ..."

4. Vector Calculus: With Applications to Physics by James Byrnie Shaw (1922)
"In the first place if we consider any given biradial, there is involved in its quaternion, just as for the complex number in the preceding chapter, ..."

5. Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington by Philosophical Society of Washington (1881)
"A tour has biradial symmetry when one-half, being rotated through 180° about ... A tour having biradial symmetry cannot be devised on a field whose number ..."

6. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1895)
"Probably the biradial structure of the Ctenophora has been developed from ... so that the biradial structure does not represent the simplest condition of ..."

7. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1867)
"To this belongs the biradial relation (87 b), where two pencils of s. rays, being drawn from known s. points, are determined generally by s. points having a ..."

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