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A beam of light or radiation.
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I saw a ray of light through the clouds.
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A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
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One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
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A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, such as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius.
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Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
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A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
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A tiny amount.
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Unfortunately he didn't have a ray of hope.