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Subject:Re: Buttons: Radio vs. Radial? From:"Gutierrez, Diane" <Diane -dot- Gutierrez -at- WESTGROUP -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:09:38 -0600
Not such a goofy question. "Radio" is correct, as in pushing the buttons on
a radio will select a channel with the exclusion of all others. (I have also
seen this referred to as an "option" button, but less frequently.) "Radial"
is a usage I have not seen yet, and this would call to mind a concentric
geometric construction, not a button.
