radial tire

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   pneumatic tire that has radial-ply casing

   Synonymsradialradial-ply tire

   Broaderpneumatic tire

Questions about radial tire

What does radial tire mean?

radial tire means "pneumatic tire that has radial-ply casing".

What is another word for radial tire?

Close synonyms include radial, radial-ply tire. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is radial tire a common word?

radial tire is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.