radius
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- noun
- /ˈreɪdiəs/
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radio
- The search operation covered a radius of 10 kilometers from the last known location of the missing person.
- a mile radius
- a kilometer radius
- 50-mile radius
Interesting what you said about the felt sense of being in the blast radius of Sam's online experience.
- Interesting what you said about the felt sense of being in the blast radius of Sam's online experience.
- solidify, yeah, it's not a mild problem. It's like it's real. It's within a block radius, you get lost.
- It is within that radius is what your intuition is.
- So you've got to have your phone on all time and you can't leave an hours and a half radius of radius of Cambridge.
Examples
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The dam crumbled; everyone within a radius of ten feet immediately wanted to see the photo.
Fiction book (1993) -
The five teachers lived within a fifty-mile radius and had little, if any, contact with one another.
Academic text (1992) -
And we're moving from a radius of one to two.
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Impact radius is getting bigger every second.
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It's not much because your height is small compared with the radius of the Earth, correct?
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The female's home range has a radius of up to about nine feet around her mate.
Academic text (1990) -
The power went off in a five-block radius around the New Hope Baptist Church.
Fiction book (1996) -
That's equal to the radius of a neutron star.
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Best case, he doesn't kill anyone within a five-mile radius of the airport.
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There's about 300 registered gun owners in a two-mile radius of the house.
Synonyms
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The amount of flat space inside a shape measured in square units
Compounds
- Specialized
A straight line from a point to a central point, for example the center of rotation or the origin
- Specialized
The distance from a curve to the center of the circle that best fits the curve at a point
How Long
Surface Forms
Etymology
Radius comes from Latin radius, 'ray' or 'spoke', and you can imagine that ray drawn out from a point in every direction to make a circle. So radius also means the circular area around a central point defined by that distance.