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radius

[ray-dee-uhs] / ˈreɪ di əs /


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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

By combining the observations from both telescopes, the researchers reconstructed the structure of Betelgeuse's outer layers, beginning just above its visible surface and extending outward to several times its radius.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

The North Korean mines also have a blast radius of more than 15 feet, he added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Everyone within a three-seat radius turned to look at me.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

Some well-studied white dwarfs have unexpectedly large radii for their relatively low masses.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

After all, the observations employed to measure planetary radii cannot differentiate whether the determined size is due to the solid part of the planet alone or an additional dense atmosphere.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 2024

As a class, such stars are among the largest in the universe, with radii up to 1,500 times that of our sun and masses of up to 40 times larger than our home star.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 21, 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

It was all a question of the angle and radii at which the DNA strands twisted about the central axis.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

"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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