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radius English

Learners of English as a second language usually know the word radius once they have reached the level C2 – Proficient. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning radius meaning

What does radius mean?

Definitions in simple English

radius Noun

— A radius is a straight line between the centre of a circle and its circumference. To find the area of a circle, you have to know the length of the radius.

radius

— noun the length of a line segment between the center and circumference of a circle or sphere

— noun a straight line from the center to the perimeter of a circle (or from the center to the surface of a sphere)

— noun a circular region whose area is indicated by the length of its radius they located it within a radius of 2 miles

— noun the outer and slightly shorter of the two bones of the human forearm

— noun (= spoke) support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim

Synonyms radius synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as radius?

radius English » English

spoke

ray

tibia

wheel spoke

semidiameter

semi-diameter

r

beam

ulna

toes

tarsus

surrounding area

spool

spoke-bone

shoulder blade

scapula

rounding

reel

rad.

rad

phalanges

patella

metatarsus

metacarpus

limbo

limb bones

limb

humerus

fibula

femur

dial

circumference

carpus

bobbin

blending

baluster

R

Topics radius topics

What do people use radius to talk about?

Person Body

Bone, joint

• What words refer to specific bones?
  skull jawbone shoulder blade collarbone clavicle backbone rib hip tibia tailbone carpal carpus cranium femur fibula humerus mandible mandibular maxillary metacarpus metacarpal metatarsus metatarsal parietal bone pelvis pelvic radius shinbone spine sternum tarsus ulna vertebra vertebral

Examples radius examples

How do I use radius in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The radius of the Earth is 6400 km.

How is the radius calculated, when the circumference is known?

To compute the area of a circle, you must multiply the square of the circle's radius by the number pi.

The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero - and they call it their point of view.

Her ceaseless caterwauling alarmed every dog within a 500-foot radius.

The mean radius of Saturn's moon Titan is a factor of 0.404 of Earth's.

Find the radius of the escribed circle of the triangle.

Movie subtitles

This whole area is within a radius of approximately three-quarters of a mile. Radius.

The surface of a hexagon. in relation to the radius of the circumference?

Tell Evan and Mason to check on every movement that is likely to take place inside this radius tonight.

Within a 100-mile radius.

Meanwhile, Mr Lexy, our radio expert, will be jamming all police broadcasts over a radius, I hope, of at least two miles.

This gives us a radius of action sufficient to take out primary and secondary targets, but we will not repeat, not be able to make it back to any base or neutral country.

There are 20 men within a radius of a quarter of a mile. You've got a gun, use it if you have to but remember, I want the boy taken alive.

I went off to London to hold a parade of extras to choose the girls, while the wardrobe set out to cut 60 circles of five foot radius out of scenic gauze.

So it must be beyond that radius.

I am the only one within a radius of 50 miles.

I'll circle them at full-thrust speed, diminishing radius of curvature.

Expand search radius.

I've run a complete check on all life-forms, radius 100 miles.

I've been everywhere within a radius of five miles of this village.

That is, the area of the base is exactly equal to that of a circle, with the height of the structure as its radius.

Sphere. - Area: The square of the radius times 3.14.

Volume: The surface area times the radius, divided by 3.

Nothing in the sky for a radius of hundreds of miles.

It could destroy all life within a radius of millions of kilometers.

Warn all aircraft to avoid area, 5-mile radius.

This gives us a radius of action sufficient to take out. primary and secondary targets, but we will not. repeat, not be able to make it back to any base or neutral country.

There are 20 men within a radius of a quarter of a mile.

This one must be beyond that radius.

This whole area is within a radius of approximately three-quarters of a mile.

Kelly, dig into the files quick and get me a list of the ex-cons living in that vicinity within a two-mile radius of 7th and Maple.

Will you be so good as to demonstrate upon this cadaver. as to how you would propose to cut through the radius and ulna?

The hand bills were only put out within a 4 block radius of the Coliseum.

I've run a complete spherical check on all life forms, captain, radius 100 miles.

Evidently programmed to ignore anything as small as a ship beyond a certain radius.

Fire out bursts in a one-block radius around these coordinates.

It could be anywhere within a thousand-mile radius.

News and current affairs

As US security interests shift to the Pacific, Americans now rely on increasingly vulnerable forward land bases and carrier fleets with tactical aircraft that have a combat radius of 300-500 miles (482-805 kilometers).

Wolfgang Pauli, one of the concept's originators, at first rejected the idea, because if the electron has a finite radius, then the surface would be spinning faster than the speed of light.

On the other hand, if you view the electron as a point particle, how are you to imagine something without a radius spinning?

But, at larger distances, comparable to the proton radius, the force becomes really strong, and a very large number of gluons is involved, forming complicated structures that are not well known today.