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radix

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Radix is a science fiction novel by A. A. Attanasio , published in 1981. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1981. It is the first of four books in Attanasio's Radix Tetrad , followed by In Other Worlds in 1984. The novel is being re-issued ...

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n. (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place; "10 is the radix of the decimal system" [syn: base ] [also: radices (pl)]

Usage examples of radix.

We put our bergens on and set off, carrying photography kit and large radices so we could communicate with the rest of the patrol.

Radix garage was located at the end of another of the long underground tunnels Caine had come to expect of the Argentian resistance.

And he imagined that they had been fragmented, and had traveled back in time, a fragment of each to lodge here and there in the newborn throughout history, to lodge as an obsession, glint, or insight, turning the psyches of so many in the past just enough to lead to lives and works which would lead, inevitably, stochastically, Ideologically, to the creation and destruction of Radix Malorum.

If any Radix member gets killed because you didn't consult with us you'll face a summary court-martial.