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radius

[rey-dee-uhs] / ˈreɪ di əs /


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A lower-risk zone with a 20km radius has also been delimited.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

It was the only thing within a multi-gate radius — a landscape of breakfast smash burgers and pepperoni pizza bagels — that didn’t make me queasy.

From Salon • Mar. 9, 2026

Suburbanization expanded the radius, but workers, managers and executives still had to be close to where jobs concentrated.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 28, 2026

Although many Apollo samples showed strong magnetism, some scientists argued that the Moon's small core, which measures only about 1/7th of its radius, would have struggled to sustain a powerful magnetic field.

From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 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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