radius

Examples

• All

• Change by a few inches, Yet the radius remains the same.

  Waiting for Guffman (1996)

• What's going to be the radius of my circle here?

• Has a radius of about five miles.

  Brick Mansions (2014)

• Well, all of these red lines are the radius of the circle and those are all the same.

• Ask what might be expected from a measurement of the radius of that object.

  Academic text (2004)

• For a circular door of radius R and mass M, then we have:

  Blog text (21)

• For the things around us, the Schwarzschild radius is much, much smaller than the actual radius.

  Sabine Hossenfelder

• The radius of each successive circle increased cumulatively, so each radius was 1/4 in. larger than the previous radius increase.

  Academic text (1999)

• Its mean equatorial radius is 22 kilometers (13 miles) longer than its polar one.

  Academic text (1996)

• In geometry class, we learned that the radius of a circle is the distance from its center to any point on its edge.

Synonyms

R

r

vsradius

• Specialized

1 5.3

A line from the center to the edge of a circle or to the surface of a sphere

is the actual straight line or distance from center to edge not its symbol

R

radius vector

vsradius

• Specialized

8.7

A straight line from a point to a central point, for example the center of rotation or the origin

is the line or distance measured from the center outward to the edge

S

semidiameter

vsradius

• Specialized

9.6

Half the visible width of an object in the sky as seen from Earth

is the true straight line or distance from center to surface not apparent

Compounds

R

radius vector

• Specialized

8.7

A straight line from a point to a central point, for example the center of rotation or the origin

R

radius of curvature

• Specialized

7.7

The distance from a curve to the center of the circle that best fits the curve at a point

Surface Forms

Etymology