radius
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That means a commander could draw responsible boundaries and issue orders, such as: We know that none of our pilots or drones are in this 10-mile radius, so take down anything in that airspace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Yes, this particular region, about 24.3 cqurzots in radius, is definitely lower than the vast plains outside the depression.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
It started a "limited" number of flights in Febraury, allowing customers within a 7.5 mile radius of its County Durham site to have certain items delivered by drone.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
The vessels are prohibited to approach the exclusion zone of three kilometres radius from the volcano, local port authorities said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
We were flying at an altitude of 200 miles above a sphere whose radius is 4,000 miles.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
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One possibility is the Milky Way's central bar, whose gravity may cause gas to accumulate at certain radii.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2026
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
In fact, the proton’s “weak charge” radius, so to speak, and its electric charge radius do agree with each other within their uncertainty ranges, and it’s not particularly surprising that the radii are similar.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 16, 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
She turned back around, which took a moment because ponies do not have quick turning radii.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
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"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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