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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

Ra(n.)

also Re, 3

  1. a sun god of Heliopolis, worshipped throughout ancient Egypt and typically represented as a hawk-headed man crowned with a solar disk and uraeus.

    Category: Eastern Religions

RA

  1. regular army.

    Category: Military

Ra*

  1. radium.

* Chem. Symbol..

R.A.

  1. right ascension.

    Category: Astronomy

  2. royal academician.

  3. Royal Academy.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. radium, Ra, atomic number 88(noun)

    an intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores

  2. Ra, Re(noun)

    ancient Egyptian sun god with the head of a hawk; a universal creator; he merged with the god Amen as Amen-Ra to become the king of the gods

  3. right ascension, RA, celestial longitude(noun)

    (astronomy) the equatorial coordinate specifying the angle, measured eastward along the celestial equator, from the vernal equinox to the intersection of the hour circle that passes through an object in the sky; usually expressed in hours and minutes and seconds; used with declination to specify positions on the celestial sphere

    "one hour of right ascension equals fifteen degrees"

Wiktionary

  1. Ra(Noun)

    Any of a series of moraines, in parts of Norway, that are long ridges covered with stones.

  2. Ra(ProperNoun)

    The Egyptian god of the sun.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Ra(noun)

    a roe; a deer


Translations for ra

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

raw(adjective)

not cooked

raw onions/meat.

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