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Answer for the clue "Choice for a tire buyer ", 6 letters:
radial

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Word definitions for radial in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "of or like a ray or radius," from Medieval Latin radialis, from Latin radius "shaft, rod; spoke of a wheel; beam of light" (see radius ). As a noun, a type of tire, attested from 1965, short for radial-ply (tire). Related: Radially .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. relating to or near the radius; "the radial aspect of the forearm" relating to or moving along or having the direction of a radius; "radial velocity" issuing in rays from a common centerXs; relating to rays of light; "radial heat" arranged like rays ...

Usage examples of radial.

If the radial disturbing force be exterior to the disturbed body, it will diminish the central force, and cause a progressive motion in the aphelion point of the orbit.

Radial rather than bilateral symmetry would eliminate the left-hemisphere-right-hemi-sphere separation of the higher creatures on Earth.

A very big biplane with an enclosed cabin, a radial engine and a dull-green paint job.

There was no pulse in the wrist in either the radial or ulnar arteries, but there was pulsation in the brachial as low as the ecchymosed swelling.

The principal effect, however, of the horary variation of the needle is due to the radial stream of the sun, which not only penetrates the atmosphere, but also the solid crust of the earth.

But the lack of warmth, the absence of inner radial heat which, not being fundamental in the structure of their lives, had never been wanted, filled him with horror and impotent fury.

One hand raised two inches from where it lay on the bloody cape, then fell back, tarsals and metatarsals separating, a scattering of tiny bones, as the radial tendon dissolved.

I believe your brachio radial and pronator muscles are in spasm, and they have contracted so tightly they are now wider than the gap between the bars.

He shifted his feet like a boxer, readying the knife, and looked for the bad places on the big driver to cut or stab--the brachial, radial or carotid arteries, the subclavian or the heart and stomach areas.

Animals simpler than the flatworms, such as the coelenterates, sponges, and single-celled creatures, generally have either radial symmetry or no marked symmetry at all.

The geometry is entirely radial, so there are no edge-bleeding effects, and, as far as I can tell, the thing is distortionless, intertialess, and self-interference-free, so that anything stored on it will last until the end of time, or until quanta-level decay erodes the fundamental substructure of the behavior of basic particles, whichever comes first.

By combining these two ratios, we find that the velocity of the radial stream will be in the ses-plicate ratio of the distances inversely.

Six radial grooves, or slots, were deeply recessed in the metal, and lying in them were six crossed bars like the spokes of a rimless wheel, with a small hub at the centre.

During all the night the radial bulletins spread the news of fled his, but the more they went into in Colorado, the less was spoken of the subject, without a doubt because nobody hoped that it went towards the north, far from the main airports, railway stations and of omnibus.

We must regard them as dynamic realms of particularly extreme spherical and radial activities.