radius
IPA: rˈeɪdiʌs
noun
- (anatomy) The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb.
- (zoology) The lighter bone (or fused portion of bone) in the forelimb of an animal.
- (entomology) One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the subcosta and the media; the vein running along the costal edge of the discal cell.
- (geometry) A line segment between any point of a circle or sphere and its center.
- (geometry) The length of this line segment.
- Anything resembling a radius, such as the spoke of a wheel, the movable arm of a sextant, or one of the radiating lines of a spider's web.
- (computing) Initialism of Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service.
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Examples of "radius" in Sentences
- The moz-border-radius is understood by all mozilla based browsers such as Firefox.
- Thus the clockwork Earth is (2,575,342/2pi = 409,878 km) in radius (about 64x our Earth's)
- Daniel – not sure what that wide radius is but I can think of two places with good fried foods.
- So we went outside and, lo and behold, about 20 degrees* in radius around the Moon was a nearly complete halo!
- Since the Earth's radius is around 6400 km, I could probably jump off a celestial body of the Earth's density which had a radius of about 2.7 km or smaller
- Not to mention I live near Philadelphia, PA and he will not shoot outside of a certain radius away from the city, which would mean filming of BD would be nearby.
- At only 30 feet tall and 2 feet in radius, Windspire is distinguished by its sleek propeller-free design, ultra quiet operation, rugged construction, and affordable pricing.
- Indeed, Mars's satellite Phobos, whose mean radius is 11.1 km, has a numerically similar escape velocity of 11.3 metres per second - as you may vaguely remember fron Arthur C. Clarke's story, "Hide-and-Seek".
- And, indeed, I would agree with that ranking, but the only reason we want a sphere of autonomy is because we happen to be sympathetic to ranking freedoms according to their radius from the center of the sphere of autonomy.
- The radius, _p b_, of the upper circle is termed the _crater radius_; the line _o p_, drawn from the centre of the charge perpendicular to the surface where the explosion takes place, is termed the _line of least resistance_; the line _o b_, drawn from the centre of the powder to any point in the circumference of the upper circle, is termed the _radius of explosion_.
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