Pseudoradical
adj, noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 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."
- 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."
Adjective
- 1 Claiming or appearing to be politically radical, but not actually so.
Example
More examples"He protests the war in Vietnam, but looks with contempt on the hate-filled pseudoradicals who preach the politics of violence."
Etymology
From pseudo- + radical.
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