-al [-ial, -eal]

1. Of or relating to the brain or cerebrum.
2. Appealing to or requiring the use of the intellect; intellectual rather than emotional.

1. Relating or belonging to the neck, or to any body part that resembles a neck.
2. Having to do with any kind of neck including the neck on which the head is perched and the neck of the uterus.
2. Referring to, or belonging to, the cervix of the womb.

The word cervix in Latin means, "neck". That is why "cervical vertebrae" and "cervical cancer" involve quite various parts of the anatomy joined only by the meaning of the word cervix.

1. To be chiral a structure must lack both a plane of symmetry and a center of symmetry.
2. Of or relating to the structural characteristic of a molecule that makes it impossible to superimpose it on its mirror image.
3. A carbon atom attached to four different groups forms a chiral center.

1, In financial situations, property or goods used as security for a loan and forfeited if the loan is not repaid.
2. A relative descended from the same ancestor as another person but through a different set of parents, grandparents, and other forebears.
3. Etymology: from medieval Latin collateralis, literally "side by side with", from Latin lateralis, "on the side".

1. Appropriate to, used in, or characteristic of spoken language or of writing that is used to create the effect of conversation; belonging to common speech as opposed to formal speaking.
2. Characteristic of, or proper to, ordinary conversation; such as, being distinguished from formal or elevated language.

1. Pertaining to the skin or outer integument in general; cutaneous.
2. Pertaining to the derma or true skin, as opposed to epidermal.

1. Extending between nonadjacent angles in a polygon figure.
2. Having slanting marks, lines, etc.

1. Pertaining to, resembling, or using a digit or digits.
2. Resembling an impression made by a finger.
3. Pertaining to data in the form of discrete states as contrasted to analog data in the form of continuously variable physical quantities.

In computer science, representing or operating on data or information in numerical form.

A digital clock uses a series of changing digits to represent time at discrete intervals; for example, every second.

Modern computers rely on digital processing techniques, in which both data and the instructions for manipulating data are represented as binary numbers.

1. A reference to the church or the clergy; churchly; clerical; not secular.
2. Associated with a church; especially, a Christian Church.
3. Appropriate to a church or to use in a church: "ecclesiastical architecture"; "ecclesiastical robes".