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pseudoradical

pseudoradical noun: one who only claims or appears to be a political radical.

Noun

pseudoradical (plural pseudoradicals)

  1. One who only claims or appears to be a political radical.
    • He protests the war in Vietnam, but looks with contempt on the hate-filled pseudoradicals who preach the politics of violence.2007 September 9, Karen Durbin, “Breaking Through”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2021
  2. The intersection of the set of nonzero prime ideals of a ring.
  3. An atom or group within a molecule which behaves like a free radical due to high valence.
    • As suggested by Weinmayr in this example, the reaction proceeds by a different mechanism, not with the formation of free radicals but rather with separation of the C — Hg bond, thus producing pseudoradicals which do not diffuse into the reaction medium.1971, Ernest I. Becker, Minoru Tsutsui, Organometallic Reactions, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN
    • These pseudoradicals are not directly chain carriers in the reduction of peroxydisulfate, but they can further build up oxygen radical ions.2002, Willy J. Masschelein, Rip G. Rice, Ultraviolet Light in Water and Wastewater Sanitation, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 53

Adjective

pseudoradical (comparative more pseudoradical, superlative most pseudoradical)

  1. Claiming or appearing to be politically radical, but not actually so.

Forms of pseudoradical

Noun
pluralpseudoradicals
Adjective
comparativemore pseudoradical
superlativemost pseudoradical

Origin of pseudoradical

From pseudo- + radical.

Questions about pseudoradical

What does pseudoradical mean?
Pseudoradical means one who only claims or appears to be a political radical.
What part of speech is pseudoradical?
Pseudoradical can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of pseudoradical?
The plural of pseudoradical is pseudoradicals.

Words near pseudoradical in the dictionary

  1. pseudoracemate
  2. pseudoracemates
  3. pseudoracemic
  4. pseudoracism
  5. pseudoracist
  6. pseudoradical
  7. pseudoradicals
  8. pseudoradicular
  9. pseudorandom
  10. pseudorandom number generator
  11. pseudorandom number generators

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