Coronal Meaning
/ˈkɒɹənəl/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjRelating to a crown or coronation.
adjRelating to the corona of a star.
Sentence Examples
The coronal mass ejection was powerful.
Coronal holes emit solar winds.
The solar eclipse allowed scientists to study the coronal features.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The doctor examined the ____ plane of the patient's brain scan.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ mass ejection was powerful.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English coronal, from Anglo-Norman coronal, from Latin corōnālis (“related to a crown”), from corōna (“a crown”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The law and his coronal oath require his undeniable assent to what laws the Parliament agree upon."
— 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:
"The coronal light during the eclipse is faint."
— 1878, William de Wiveleslie Abney, A Treatise on Photography:
"Coronal holes are darker, cooler regions of the sun's atmosphere, or corona, containing little solar material. In these gaps, magnetic field lines whip out into the solar wind rather than looping back to the sun's surface. Coronal holes can affect space weather, as they send solar particles streaming off the sun about three times faster than the slower wind unleashed elsewhere from the sun's atmosphere, according to a description from NASA."
— 2013 July 28, Megan Gannon, “Spacecraft Sees Giant 'Hole' In the Sun”, in news.yahoo.com, retrieved 29 Jul 2013:
"Therfore aryse and dresse the thow gloton / For this day shall thou dye of my hand / Thenne the gloton anone starte vp and tooke a grete clubbe in his hand / and smote at the kynge that his coronal fylle to the erthe"
— 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter V, in Le Morte Darthur, book V:
"That shall embellish more your beautie bright, / And crowne your heades with heavenly coronall, / Such as the Angels weare before Gods tribunall!"
— 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The doctor examined the ____ plane of the patient's brain scan.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ mass ejection was powerful.