radix

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin rādīx (“a root”). Doublet of radish.

noun

  1. (biology) A root.
  2. (linguistics) A primitive word, from which other words may be derived.
  3. (mathematics) The number of distinct symbols used to represent numbers in a particular base, as ten for decimal.

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