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radius

[rey-dee-uhs] / ˈreɪ di əs /


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In each community where drones already operate, the drones have a total delivery radius of about 175 square miles.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 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

Local is key to their ethos - they don't operate outside of a 20-mile radius and their only ambition for growth is helping others start similar projects.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

Bavi had been on track on Friday to be the largest typhoon to hit Taiwan in more than 30 years, but since then its strong-wind radius has shrunk to 350 kilometres, Cheng said.

From Barron's Jul. 11, 2026

There were several cattle camps scattered over a five-mile radius.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola

PSP uses a series of Venus flyby's to gradually reduce its perihelion from 36 solar radii in 2018 to 9.5 in 2025.

From Science Daily Mar. 27, 2024

Overall, both mechanisms produce a lack of planets with sizes around two Earth radii.

From Science Daily Feb. 9, 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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