radius
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Neighboring residents would include people who live within the noticing radius of a development project, which can vary but is typically around a 500-feet radius.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
By combining the observations from both telescopes, the researchers reconstructed the structure of Betelgeuse's outer layers, beginning just above its visible surface and extending outward to several times its radius.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
Ignat acknowledged that the new system had a small operating radius.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
The North Korean mines also have a blast radius of more than 15 feet, he added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
A sphere two hundred light-years in radius contains 200,000 suns and perhaps a comparable number of worlds suitable for colonization.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Some well-studied white dwarfs have unexpectedly large radii for their relatively low masses.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
This process results in a shift in planet radii to larger values.
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
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
"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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