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radius

[ray-dee-uhs] / ˈreɪ di əs /


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Any change to how Nvidia wields such financial power will be key for understanding the blast radius from Huang’s departure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

Neighboring residents would include people who live within the noticing radius of a development project, which can vary but is typically around a 500-feet radius.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026

Its estimated orbital distance is only about twice the red supergiant's radius.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

Ignat acknowledged that the new system had a small operating radius.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

“Lucy, what’s the circumference of a circle with a radius of 8 yards?”

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty

As the atomic numbers of these lanthanides increase, the radii of their ions decrease.

From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024

The mission is approaching its 19th perihelion on March 30, 2024 at a distance of 11.5 solar radii from Sun center.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2024

For comparison, the main part of Saturn's rings sits at just three planetary radii from the gas giant.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 11, 2023

In simulations, the researchers included an object about the size of Iapetus, Saturn’s third largest moon, orbiting about 43 Saturn radii out—between the orbits of Titan and Iapetus.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 14, 2022

I pulled out my graph paper and my French curves, which would help me draw curves of different radii.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

"We come at night because of the congestion," Patton said, noting that each truck requires a two-driver team to handle the city's turning radiuses.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

Workers mapped out turning radiuses for buses, trimmed trees that would brush against bus windshields and painted dedicated bus lanes, she said.

From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2022

The leg profile drove the design of the rest of the piece, making soft radiuses on all the surfaces that contact the body while keeping a clean, flush profile on the exterior of the chair.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2016

Importantly, they also do the boring and ore calculations based on different radiuses.

From Forbes ● Nov. 6, 2012

People have all kinds of words for them now but basically it was two radiuses mixed.

From Time Magazine Archive


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