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What does ray mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word ray? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A beam of light or radiation.
  2. (zoology) A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
  3. (zoology) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
  4. (botany) A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, such as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius.
  5. (obsolete) Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
  6. (mathematics) A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
  7. (colloquial) A tiny amount.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To emit something as if in rays.
  2. (intransitive) To radiate as if in rays
Noun
  1. A marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail.
Verb
  1. (obsolete) To arrange. [14th-18th c.]
  2. (now rare) To dress, array (someone). [from 14th c.]
  3. (obsolete) To stain or soil; to defile. [16th-19th c.]
Noun
  1. The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.
Noun
  1. (obsolete) Array; order; arrangement; dress.
Noun
  1. (music) Alternative form of re
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