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radius

[ray-dee-uhs] / ˈreɪ di əs /


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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 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

With his versatile skillset, the Titans expect him to contribute right from the off - the pre-draft scout reports highlighted his maturity, intelligence, sure hands and catch radius.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 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

He complains for the millionth time that there is no prosciutto anywhere in a fifty-mile radius, when of course there is no prosciutto in a fifty-mile radius.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

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

This process results in a shift in planet radii to larger values.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 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

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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