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 radius of a circle is small.
- Define the radius of the essential spectrum.
- I recalculated the radius of the hydrogen atom.
- It is the radius of convergence of the power series.
- The radius is half of the range of the distribution.
- Multiply the excess radius by a side of the polygon.
- That should facilitate the calculation of the radius.
- It uses the dorsal tubercle on the radius as fulcrum.
- The radius of the arc is equal to the length of the ruler.
- The core of the problem is to find the radius for every circle.