Monday, September 8, 2008

Google Defines Radical

A Netizen in Atlanta wrote:
"One of the wonders of Google is that you can wind up looking at someone’s bio and wonder how you got there. After looking at your blogger web site I noticed something that appeared to be unusual. You say that you are a radical (mother of three) and content with life. So what is so radical about you? "

Definitions of radical on the Web:
group: (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule
free radical: 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 ...
extremist: (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm; "extremist political views"; "radical opinions on education"; "an ultra conservative"
revolutionary: markedly new or introducing radical change; "a revolutionary discovery"; "radical political views"
a person who has radical ideas or opinions
arising from or going to the root or source; "a radical flaw in the plan"
(mathematics) a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity
a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram
of or relating to or constituting a linguistic root; "a radical verb form"
root: (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
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" wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

or my personal interpretation:
Radical: a person who likes to enter data into little boxes; especially blog text fields.

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