coronal

UK /ˈkɒɹənəl/ US /ˈkɔɹənəl/
noun 6adj 5

Definitions

adj

1

Relating to a crown or coronation.

The law and his coronal oath require his undeniable assent to what laws the Parliament agree upon.

2

Relating to the corona of a star.

The coronal light during the eclipse is faint.

Coronal holes are darker, cooler regions of the sun's atmosphere, or corona, containing little solar material. In these gaps, magnetic field lines whip out into the solar wind rather than looping back to the sun's surface. Coronal holes can affect space weather, as they send solar particles streaming off the sun about three times faster than the slower wind unleashed elsewhere from the sun's atmosphere, according to a description from NASA.

3

Relating to the corona of a flower.

4

Relating to a sound made with the tip or blade of the tongue.

5

Relating to the coronal plane that divides a body into dorsal (back) and ventral (front).

noun

1

A crown or coronet.

Therfore aryse and dresse the thow gloton / For this day shall thou dye of my hand / Thenne the gloton anone starte vp and tooke a grete clubbe in his hand / and smote at the kynge that his coronal fylle to the erthe

That shall embellish more your beautie bright, / And crowne your heades with heavenly coronall, / Such as the Angels weare before Gods tribunall!

2

A wreath or garland of flowers.

The bowl is in the Renaissance style, with winged figures supporting coronals and wreaths of flowers, and on the edge is an emblematic figure pouring out water.

Where, darker for the sky's unclouded dome, The waves took sudden coronals of foam

3

The frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronae or garlands.

Oxycephaly results from the fusion of both coronal sutures and of the sagittal suture; trigonocephaly from a fusion of both coronals; […]

4

A consonant produced with the tip or blade of the tongue.

This structurally accounts for a number of phenomena that treat coronals asymetrically with respect to other places of articulation.

noun

1

Alternative form of cronel (“lance-part”).

By Mr. Neville's kindness an accurate drawing of this relic has been obtained, and, considering the circumstances of its discovery, it has been conjectured that it may have been the coronal of a tilting lance.

[…] the proper stroke was to knock off the salade, or bear it off in triumph on the three-pronged coronal of the lance.

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