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radius

[rey-dee-uhs] / ˈreɪ di əs /


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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

The research team mapped where the 44,000 unsheltered people lived and superimposed those over maps of the theoretcial one-mile radius security zones.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

Some big retailers operate their own distribution centers, typically within a 200-mile radius of stores.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

“The attack surface is exploding. Every ungoverned asset and identity is multiplying the blast radius of AI exponentially,” McDermott told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

In the center of the crowd that had formed before the department store the hunting cap, the green radius of the circle of people, was bobbing about violently.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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

From Science Daily May 22, 2024

As an example, the masses and radii of all nuclei up to mass number 50 were calculated using this method.

From Science Daily May 15, 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

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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