radixn.

Brit.

/ˈradɪks/,

/ˈreɪdɪks/, U.S.

/ˈrædɪks/,

/ˈreɪdɪks/

Inflections: Plural radices

/ˈreɪdɪsiːz/, radixes.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin rādīc-, rādīx.

Etymology: < classical Latin rādīc-, rādīx root, root of a plant, root of a plant used in a medicinal preparation, radish, base of a part of the body, lower part, base, source, origin, ancestral root or stock, root of a word, in post-classical Latin also square root (frequently from c1120 in British sources), (in music) fundamental note of a hexachord (13th cent. in a British source), (in astronomy) radix, starting point for calculation (from 1344 in British sources) < the same Indo-European base as root n.¹ Compare earlier race n.² and the Romance parallels cited at that entry, and also Italian radice (see radish n.). Compare earlier root n.¹

I. Senses corresponding to root n.¹ I.

1. Botany. The root of a plant (now rare). Also in the names of pharmaceutical preparations of the roots of plants, with (usually postmodifying) post-classical or scientific Latin nouns or adjectives denoting the plant used.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > root > [noun]

moreeOE

rootc1175

master-rootc1330

rootinga1400

radix1558

leg1597

taproot1601

top-root1651

tuberous root1668

heart-root1669

pivot1725

spill1766

tap1796

tutty-more1873

pneumatophore1891

stem root1901

heart-root1903

1558 W. Bullein Govt. Healthe f. lxxix Cassa fistula, Rammes Radix, The fleshe of an hare.

1574 G. Baker tr. Composition Oleum Magistrale sig. Oii^v The Radix chini beeing a root very deer.

1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. viii. ix. 1653 From that place where they abode, they brought Sassafras, Radix Chine, or the China Root, Beniamin, Cassia lignea and a rind of a tree more strong than any Spice as yet vnknowne.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Root Radix,..that Part of a Plant which immediately imbibes the Juices of the Earth.

1826 Lancet 8 July 462/2 The materia medica has acquired a very valuable acquisition in the Radix Caincae.

1918 A. S. Fuller Propagation of Plants iv. 37 The stem or ascending axis..is that part of the plant which seeks the light and air; while the part growing in the opposite direction..is the..descending axis, or radix.

1968 Tetrahedron Lett. No. 35. 3799 The roots which were formerly used as medicinal drugs (Radix Vincetoxici), contain a mixture of glycosides.

2006 Jrnl. Ethnopharmacol. 105 346/2 Early reports suggest that the roots of Scutellaria baicalensis (Scutellariae Radix) possess anti-inflammatory and antipyretic properties.

2. Anatomy. The base or point of origin or attachment of an anatomical structure.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > specific areas or structures > [noun] > root or base

rootc1225

base?c1425

basis1615

fund1636

fundus1659

root end1675

origin1692

radix1697

1638 A. Read Man. Anat. Body of Man (new ed.) iii. xiii. 469 Each tooth hath two parts; one without the gum, called Basis; the other within, called Radix, or the root.]

1697 J. Browne Myographia Nova 72 Pronator Radii Teres. This is called Teres, from its form, it arising fleshy from the Radix, of the inner prominence of the Os Humeri.

1714 W. Salmon Ars Anatomica vii. 393/1 It goes back above the Radix of the Medulla Oblongata, and divides the upper part of the Brain from the lower.

1892 Amer. Naturalist 26 116 They are obviously not appendages of the prosencephalon,..but the radices have suffered division or latero-flexion with the outgrowth of the secondary cerebral vesicles.

1981 J. Melville Murder has Pretty Face i. 31 There is bruising internally at the radix of the penis.

1994 Acta Neuropathologica 88 228 The demyelination was very severe in the radix of the 8th and the 5th cranial nerves.

II. Senses corresponding to root n.¹ III.

†a. Mathematics. A root of a number; = root n.¹ 15a. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > root

root?c1425

surd1557

radix?a1560

side1570

radical1714

?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) ii. ii. sig. M j The Radix Quadrate of the Product, is the Hypothenusa.

1579 L. Digges & T. Digges Stratioticos 13 To find the square Radix, or Roote of any number.

a1690 S. Jeake Compl. Body Arithm. (1701) ii. ii. iii. 199 So 2 is the Radix Zenzizenzicubick of 4096.

1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. xii. 308 √ Radix, Root, or Side of a Square.

1796 J. Gale Gale's Cabinet of Knowl. ii. 227 Pluses, minuses, multiples, radices, dividendas, [etc.].

b. Chiefly Astrology and (now rare) Astronomy. A basis or starting point for calculation, such as a certain point in time, a particular position of a planet, etc. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > astrology > [noun] > calculation > basis of

rootc1405

radix1585

1585 J. Blagrave Math. Iewel 63 The place of the Sunne which he had in the Radix of the thing.

1603 C. Heydon Def. Iudiciall Astrol. 363 These..haue euer a principall aime, vnto the position of heauen, at the natiuite, as the Radix, or roote of their operations.

1615 W. Bedwell Arabian Trudgman in tr. Mohammedis Imposturæ sig. N4^v Tarich... The Astronomers..do call it Radix, whereby they vnderstand some set..time beginning at some memorable action.

1671 J. Flamsteed Lett. (1995) I. 118 Having..framed Radix'es from some observations I met with in Borellus I found that the occultations of the satellits are praedicted by Cassini after the New Stile.

1701 J. Brampton Tabular Arithm. 3 In the second Column, whose top, or title is Shillings, are contain'd certain Sumes ready cast up in Pounds and Shillings, which is the Column you must look into when your Radix, or first Number, is Shillings.

1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. iii. §60. 469 Every Planet's Radixes are to be settled, not of the Longitude of a Planet,..but of the mean Anomaly of the Planet.

1775 J. Kennedy (title) An explanation and proof of ‘The Complete System of Astronomical Chronology..’ in which the truth and reality of the original luni-solar radix is clearly and fully ascertained.

1984 J. C. Eade Forgotten Sky ii. 100 ‘Radix’ tends to refer to the original horoscope, in circumstances where certain elements in it are projected forward in order to create new aspects that will forecast events in the native's later life.

c. Mathematics and Computing. The base of a scale of numeration or a system of logarithms; = base n.¹ 20.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [noun] > scale > base of scale

nodus1677

radix1754

base1772

1754 J. Robertson Elements Navigation II. viii. 144 The number usually set down, as Napier's logarithm of 10, is more properly his logarithm divided by the radius of his trigonometrical table, which is the radix from which he raised his logarithms.

1771 R. Flower Radix 2 (heading) Cube radix of 10.

1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 234/2 Ten is the radix of the decimal system of numeration, and the radix of the common system of logarithms.

1888 C. Smith Treat. Algebra (1893) xviii. 273 Radix fractions in any scale correspond to decimal fractions in the ordinary scale.

1946 J. W. Mauchly in Moore School Lect. (1985) 299 Since it is now customary to use the decimal system, there is little likelihood that a system based on the radix 8 or 16 can be brought into common use.

1950 W. W. Stifler High-speed Computing Devices (Engin. Res. Associates) vi. 80 For any radix arithmetic the basic tables corresponding to the addition and the multiplication tables of decimal arithmetic can be written.

1999 H. Tropp in I. B. Cohen & G. W. Welch Makin' Numbers i. 131 This is a discussion of all number systems from 2 to 12 and what they'd be good for, and the best representation of the radix-3 system.

4. Linguistics. An original word or form from which other words are derived. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > [noun] > derivation > word from which others are derived

primitive1565

root word1571

etymon1573

radix1612

stem1655

etym1748

1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. xx. 233 I also intend (God willing) to set in the Margent of it all the Hebrew Radices, against euery Radix in Greeke.

1622 J. Brinsley Consol. Gram. School 72 For attaining very speedily to all the Greek Primitiues or Radices..God hath prouided..The Clauis linguæ Græcæ, by Lubine.

1641 E. Legh (title) Critica Sacra. Observations on all the radices, or Primitive Hebrew words of the Old Testament.

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. iv. vi. 453 Of all other Languages, the Greek is looked upon to be one of the most copious; the Radixes of which are esteemed to be about 3244.

1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. xxix. 191 Inasmuch as the radix of each word is hereby torn up.

1771 W. Jones Zoologia Ethica 102 A quadriliteral word..compounded of a double radix.

?1785 J. Wesley Lett. (1931) VII. 251 He frequently, to find the etymology of one word, squeezes two radices together; a liberty never to be taken where a word may fairly be derived from a single radix.

1837 N. Amer. Rev. July 45 By adding either the first, or the accented syllable of the second of those words to the radix of the verb, the two classes of transitives are formed.

1854 Jrnl. Ethnol. Soc. 3 15 The radix ‘khn’ in the ancient Egyptian is found in the Persian.

1882 Catholic World Apr. 124 Ealbha (pronounced elva), ‘a drove or herd of cattle’, is the radix of the word Helvetia.

1904 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 34 59 The radix employed by them [sc. the Sίciatl] is totally unlike that in any other dialect.

†5. Music. The fundamental note of the harmonic series. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > chord > [noun] > root of chord

radix1673

fundamental1721

generator?1775

root1806

pedal1854

ground-note1877

1673 Philos. Trans. 1672 (Royal Soc.) 7 5154 Musical Sounds are originally in the Radix or Unison.

III. Senses corresponding to root n.¹ II.

6. Source, origin; that in which anything originates. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun]

welleOE

mothereOE

ordeOE

wellspringeOE

fathereOE

headeOE

oreOE

wellspringOE

rootc1175

morea1200

beginningc1200

head wella1325

sourcec1374

principlea1382

risinga1382

springinga1382

fountain14..

springerc1410

nativity?a1425

racinea1425

spring1435

headspring?a1439

seminaryc1440

originationc1443

spring wellc1450

sourdre1477

primordialc1487

naissance1490

wellhead?1492

offspringa1500

conduit-head1517

damc1540

springhead1547

principium1550

mint1555

principal1555

centre1557

head fountain1563

parentage1581

rise1589

spawna1591

fount1594

parent1597

taproot1601

origin1604

fountainhead1606

radix1607

springa1616

abundary1622

rist1622

primitive1628

primary1632

land-spring1642

extraction1655

upstart1669

progenerator1692

fontala1711

well-eye1826

first birth1838

ancestry1880

Quelle1893

1607 Fayre Mayde of Exchange sig. G2^v Her wit is all spirit; that spirit fire,..able to burne the radix of the best inuention.

1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 111 The radix and ground of this contest was this.

a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) XI. 5 Concupiscence, I shew, was the radix of all sin.

1777 Reasons for leaving Methodist Soc. 20 I look upon the body of the people to be the very radix of all power.

1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 26 Hence a separate and specific power has..been ascribed to the nervous fibres themselves, while the brain has been contemplated as their radix.

1840 T. De Quincey On Essenes: Pt. III in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 648/1 Judaism is the radix of Christianity.

1868 Overland Monthly Sept. 269/1 The radix is an ego, propagating only egos, each self-centred, self-governed and complete.

1977 Ecologist 7 119/2 We must defend the ‘radices’—the roots of life on our planet.

†7. Ancestral root or stock. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > ancestor > [noun] > ancestral stock or root

kinc1100

kindc1175

kindredc1200

rootc1330

stockc1393

stirp?1573

radix1651

source1670

1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum i. 106 I shall run your pedigree to the radix.

1652 H. Crompton tr. H. C. Agrippa Glory of Women Ep. Ded. sig. A2 The two Twins of Grace and Vertue descended from the Radix of your Nobility.

Compounds

radix sort n. Computing = radix sorting n.; (also) an instance of radix sorting; an algorithm which performs radix sorting.

ΚΠ

1970 O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing xvii. 280 In radix sort, the records usually pass through the sorting device—a computer or a card sorter, as many times as there are digits in the sorting key.

1989 Information & Computation 80 217 The idea is to use a ‘radix sort’, least significant digit first.

2006 U.S. Patent 7,130,983 B1 25 Lists generated by one or more previous radix sorts.

radix sorting n. Computing a technique for sorting data into order by successively grouping the items according to the value of each digit or character in turn.

ΚΠ

1956 Jrnl. Assoc. Computing Machinery 3 134 Most sorting techniques utilized for the ordering of large quantities of data fall into one of two general categories, ‘Sorting by Merging’ and ‘Radix Sorting’.

1985 Pract. Computing Dec. 31/2 Radix sorting, where each bit or character is sorted separately, is the most sensitive to the length of the key.

2005 Jrnl. Parallel & Distributed Computing 65 1472/1 The input packets are sorted in a manner like binary most significant bit (MSB) radix sorting.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	radix
释义	radixn. Brit. /ˈradɪks/, /ˈreɪdɪks/, U.S. /ˈrædɪks/, /ˈreɪdɪks/ Inflections: Plural radices /ˈreɪdɪsiːz/, radixes. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin rādīc-, rādīx. Etymology: < classical Latin rādīc-, rādīx root, root of a plant, root of a plant used in a medicinal preparation, radish, base of a part of the body, lower part, base, source, origin, ancestral root or stock, root of a word, in post-classical Latin also square root (frequently from c1120 in British sources), (in music) fundamental note of a hexachord (13th cent. in a British source), (in astronomy) radix, starting point for calculation (from 1344 in British sources) < the same Indo-European base as root n.¹ Compare earlier race n.² and the Romance parallels cited at that entry, and also Italian radice (see radish n.). Compare earlier root n.¹ I. Senses corresponding to root n.¹ I. 1. Botany. The root of a plant (now rare). Also in the names of pharmaceutical preparations of the roots of plants, with (usually postmodifying) post-classical or scientific Latin nouns or adjectives denoting the plant used. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > root > [noun] moreeOE rootc1175 master-rootc1330 rootinga1400 radix1558 leg1597 taproot1601 top-root1651 tuberous root1668 heart-root1669 pivot1725 spill1766 tap1796 tutty-more1873 pneumatophore1891 stem root1901 heart-root1903 1558 W. Bullein Govt. Healthe f. lxxix Cassa fistula, Rammes Radix, The fleshe of an hare. 1574 G. Baker tr. Composition Oleum Magistrale sig. Oii^v The Radix chini beeing a root very deer. 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. viii. ix. 1653 From that place where they abode, they brought Sassafras, Radix Chine, or the China Root, Beniamin, Cassia lignea and a rind of a tree more strong than any Spice as yet vnknowne. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Root Radix,..that Part of a Plant which immediately imbibes the Juices of the Earth. 1826 Lancet 8 July 462/2 The materia medica has acquired a very valuable acquisition in the Radix Caincae. 1918 A. S. Fuller Propagation of Plants iv. 37 The stem or ascending axis..is that part of the plant which seeks the light and air; while the part growing in the opposite direction..is the..descending axis, or radix. 1968 Tetrahedron Lett. No. 35. 3799 The roots which were formerly used as medicinal drugs (Radix Vincetoxici), contain a mixture of glycosides. 2006 Jrnl. Ethnopharmacol. 105 346/2 Early reports suggest that the roots of Scutellaria baicalensis (Scutellariae Radix) possess anti-inflammatory and antipyretic properties. 2. Anatomy. The base or point of origin or attachment of an anatomical structure. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > specific areas or structures > [noun] > root or base rootc1225 base?c1425 basis1615 fund1636 fundus1659 root end1675 origin1692 radix1697 1638 A. Read Man. Anat. Body of Man (new ed.) iii. xiii. 469 Each tooth hath two parts; one without the gum, called Basis; the other within, called Radix, or the root.] 1697 J. Browne Myographia Nova 72 Pronator Radii Teres. This is called Teres, from its form, it arising fleshy from the Radix, of the inner prominence of the Os Humeri. 1714 W. Salmon Ars Anatomica vii. 393/1 It goes back above the Radix of the Medulla Oblongata, and divides the upper part of the Brain from the lower. 1892 Amer. Naturalist 26 116 They are obviously not appendages of the prosencephalon,..but the radices have suffered division or latero-flexion with the outgrowth of the secondary cerebral vesicles. 1981 J. Melville Murder has Pretty Face i. 31 There is bruising internally at the radix of the penis. 1994 Acta Neuropathologica 88 228 The demyelination was very severe in the radix of the 8th and the 5th cranial nerves. II. Senses corresponding to root n.¹ III. 3. †a. Mathematics. A root of a number; = root n.¹ 15a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > root root?c1425 surd1557 radix?a1560 side1570 radical1714 ?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) ii. ii. sig. M j The Radix Quadrate of the Product, is the Hypothenusa. 1579 L. Digges & T. Digges Stratioticos 13 To find the square Radix, or Roote of any number. a1690 S. Jeake Compl. Body Arithm. (1701) ii. ii. iii. 199 So 2 is the Radix Zenzizenzicubick of 4096. 1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. xii. 308 √ Radix, Root, or Side of a Square. 1796 J. Gale Gale's Cabinet of Knowl. ii. 227 Pluses, minuses, multiples, radices, dividendas, [etc.]. b. Chiefly Astrology and (now rare) Astronomy. A basis or starting point for calculation, such as a certain point in time, a particular position of a planet, etc. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > astrology > [noun] > calculation > basis of rootc1405 radix1585 1585 J. Blagrave Math. Iewel 63 The place of the Sunne which he had in the Radix of the thing. 1603 C. Heydon Def. Iudiciall Astrol. 363 These..haue euer a principall aime, vnto the position of heauen, at the natiuite, as the Radix, or roote of their operations. 1615 W. Bedwell Arabian Trudgman in tr. Mohammedis Imposturæ sig. N4^v Tarich... The Astronomers..do call it Radix, whereby they vnderstand some set..time beginning at some memorable action. 1671 J. Flamsteed Lett. (1995) I. 118 Having..framed Radix'es from some observations I met with in Borellus I found that the occultations of the satellits are praedicted by Cassini after the New Stile. 1701 J. Brampton Tabular Arithm. 3 In the second Column, whose top, or title is Shillings, are contain'd certain Sumes ready cast up in Pounds and Shillings, which is the Column you must look into when your Radix, or first Number, is Shillings. 1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. iii. §60. 469 Every Planet's Radixes are to be settled, not of the Longitude of a Planet,..but of the mean Anomaly of the Planet. 1775 J. Kennedy (title) An explanation and proof of ‘The Complete System of Astronomical Chronology..’ in which the truth and reality of the original luni-solar radix is clearly and fully ascertained. 1984 J. C. Eade Forgotten Sky ii. 100 ‘Radix’ tends to refer to the original horoscope, in circumstances where certain elements in it are projected forward in order to create new aspects that will forecast events in the native's later life. c. Mathematics and Computing. The base of a scale of numeration or a system of logarithms; = base n.¹ 20. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [noun] > scale > base of scale nodus1677 radix1754 base1772 1754 J. Robertson Elements Navigation II. viii. 144 The number usually set down, as Napier's logarithm of 10, is more properly his logarithm divided by the radius of his trigonometrical table, which is the radix from which he raised his logarithms. 1771 R. Flower Radix 2 (heading) Cube radix of 10. 1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 234/2 Ten is the radix of the decimal system of numeration, and the radix of the common system of logarithms. 1888 C. Smith Treat. Algebra (1893) xviii. 273 Radix fractions in any scale correspond to decimal fractions in the ordinary scale. 1946 J. W. Mauchly in Moore School Lect. (1985) 299 Since it is now customary to use the decimal system, there is little likelihood that a system based on the radix 8 or 16 can be brought into common use. 1950 W. W. Stifler High-speed Computing Devices (Engin. Res. Associates) vi. 80 For any radix arithmetic the basic tables corresponding to the addition and the multiplication tables of decimal arithmetic can be written. 1999 H. Tropp in I. B. Cohen & G. W. Welch Makin' Numbers i. 131 This is a discussion of all number systems from 2 to 12 and what they'd be good for, and the best representation of the radix-3 system. 4. Linguistics. An original word or form from which other words are derived. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > [noun] > derivation > word from which others are derived primitive1565 root word1571 etymon1573 radix1612 stem1655 etym1748 1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. xx. 233 I also intend (God willing) to set in the Margent of it all the Hebrew Radices, against euery Radix in Greeke. 1622 J. Brinsley Consol. Gram. School 72 For attaining very speedily to all the Greek Primitiues or Radices..God hath prouided..The Clauis linguæ Græcæ, by Lubine. 1641 E. Legh (title) Critica Sacra. Observations on all the radices, or Primitive Hebrew words of the Old Testament. 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. iv. vi. 453 Of all other Languages, the Greek is looked upon to be one of the most copious; the Radixes of which are esteemed to be about 3244. 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. xxix. 191 Inasmuch as the radix of each word is hereby torn up. 1771 W. Jones Zoologia Ethica 102 A quadriliteral word..compounded of a double radix. ?1785 J. Wesley Lett. (1931) VII. 251 He frequently, to find the etymology of one word, squeezes two radices together; a liberty never to be taken where a word may fairly be derived from a single radix. 1837 N. Amer. Rev. July 45 By adding either the first, or the accented syllable of the second of those words to the radix of the verb, the two classes of transitives are formed. 1854 Jrnl. Ethnol. Soc. 3 15 The radix ‘khn’ in the ancient Egyptian is found in the Persian. 1882 Catholic World Apr. 124 Ealbha (pronounced elva), ‘a drove or herd of cattle’, is the radix of the word Helvetia. 1904 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 34 59 The radix employed by them [sc. the Sίciatl] is totally unlike that in any other dialect. †5. Music. The fundamental note of the harmonic series. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > chord > [noun] > root of chord radix1673 fundamental1721 generator?1775 root1806 pedal1854 ground-note1877 1673 Philos. Trans. 1672 (Royal Soc.) 7 5154 Musical Sounds are originally in the Radix or Unison. III. Senses corresponding to root n.¹ II. 6. Source, origin; that in which anything originates. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] welleOE mothereOE ordeOE wellspringeOE fathereOE headeOE oreOE wellspringOE rootc1175 morea1200 beginningc1200 head wella1325 sourcec1374 principlea1382 risinga1382 springinga1382 fountain14.. springerc1410 nativity?a1425 racinea1425 spring1435 headspring?a1439 seminaryc1440 originationc1443 spring wellc1450 sourdre1477 primordialc1487 naissance1490 wellhead?1492 offspringa1500 conduit-head1517 damc1540 springhead1547 principium1550 mint1555 principal1555 centre1557 head fountain1563 parentage1581 rise1589 spawna1591 fount1594 parent1597 taproot1601 origin1604 fountainhead1606 radix1607 springa1616 abundary1622 rist1622 primitive1628 primary1632 land-spring1642 extraction1655 upstart1669 progenerator1692 fontala1711 well-eye1826 first birth1838 ancestry1880 Quelle1893 1607 Fayre Mayde of Exchange sig. G2^v Her wit is all spirit; that spirit fire,..able to burne the radix of the best inuention. 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 111 The radix and ground of this contest was this. a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) XI. 5 Concupiscence, I shew, was the radix of all sin. 1777 Reasons for leaving Methodist Soc. 20 I look upon the body of the people to be the very radix of all power. 1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 26 Hence a separate and specific power has..been ascribed to the nervous fibres themselves, while the brain has been contemplated as their radix. 1840 T. De Quincey On Essenes: Pt. III in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 648/1 Judaism is the radix of Christianity. 1868 Overland Monthly Sept. 269/1 The radix is an ego, propagating only egos, each self-centred, self-governed and complete. 1977 Ecologist 7 119/2 We must defend the ‘radices’—the roots of life on our planet. †7. Ancestral root or stock. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > ancestor > [noun] > ancestral stock or root kinc1100 kindc1175 kindredc1200 rootc1330 stockc1393 stirp?1573 radix1651 source1670 1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum i. 106 I shall run your pedigree to the radix. 1652 H. Crompton tr. H. C. Agrippa Glory of Women Ep. Ded. sig. A2 The two Twins of Grace and Vertue descended from the Radix of your Nobility. Compounds radix sort n. Computing = radix sorting n.; (also) an instance of radix sorting; an algorithm which performs radix sorting. ΚΠ 1970 O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing xvii. 280 In radix sort, the records usually pass through the sorting device—a computer or a card sorter, as many times as there are digits in the sorting key. 1989 Information & Computation 80 217 The idea is to use a ‘radix sort’, least significant digit first. 2006 U.S. Patent 7,130,983 B1 25 Lists generated by one or more previous radix sorts. radix sorting n. Computing a technique for sorting data into order by successively grouping the items according to the value of each digit or character in turn. ΚΠ 1956 Jrnl. Assoc. Computing Machinery 3 134 Most sorting techniques utilized for the ordering of large quantities of data fall into one of two general categories, ‘Sorting by Merging’ and ‘Radix Sorting’. 1985 Pract. Computing Dec. 31/2 Radix sorting, where each bit or character is sorted separately, is the most sensitive to the length of the key. 2005 Jrnl. Parallel & Distributed Computing 65 1472/1 The input packets are sorted in a manner like binary most significant bit (MSB) radix sorting. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1558
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