Hey /lit/,
This is not about literature but I figured you guys could help me with this. Non native English speaker here. I need a term to name the structures as seen in the pic I posted.
They're lines radiating from the inner side of a circumference. What should be the best word for it?
Thanks
P.S. The drawing represents a biological structure but it's not really relevant.
>>7829009
Spokes would be closer, pic related is a ray
pegs, bristles, ribs,
>>7829009
filaments
maybe strands?
>>7829009
Line segments that are shorter than the radius, start from the circumference and go radially inwards.
>>7829042
true, but if they don't join in the center, they're not spokes, either.
>>7829129
this is exact
>>7829070
good one-word answers. but "ribs" only if they have depth i.e. the circle is actually a tube. "nubs" might work, too. I can't think of a single word that would convey that they're radiating without going the length of a full radius, though. I don't think there is one.
Radians...
>>7829009
>The drawing represents a biological structure but it's not really relevant
If you're talking about these structures in biology then yes OP that is completely relevant and those structures are called cilia.
>>7829009
marks that represent minutes with five minute intervals all around the circumference of the clock face
>>7829231
I thought cilia were on the outside?
>>7829009
segments
i would say that it's an 18 segment circular display
splango blango wingo wongo bimbly booblies
>>7829009
Axial Rays
>>7829237
Cilia can be on the inside as well, at least on a multicellular level. There are cilia inside the intestines, for example (cf. the cross section in OP).
