Meaning

7 senses
  1. The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb.

  2. The lighter bone (or fused portion of bone) in the forelimb of an animal.

    Speiche, Radius

    лучева́я костьlučevája kostʹ

    променева кісткаpromeneva kistka

  3. One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the subcosta and the media; the vein running along the costal edge of the discal cell.

  4. A line segment between any point of a circle or sphere and its center.

    Fatima claims to have visited all the bars within a five-mile radius of her Manhattan apartment.

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

  5. The length of this line segment.

    Radius, Halbmesser, Radius

    ра́диусrádius, ра́диусrádius

    ра́діусrádius, ра́діусrádius

  6. Anything resembling a radius, such as the spoke of a wheel, the movable arm of a sextant, or one of the radiating lines of a spider's web.

  7. The minimum eccentricity of any vertex, for a given graph.

Examples

22 sentences
  1. Earth's radius is about six thousand kilometres.

    Радіус Землі приблизно дорівнює шість тисяч кілометрів.

    ruРадиус Земли составляет около шести тысяч километров.

    deDer Erdradius beträgt ungefähr sechstausend Kilometer.

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  2. Its radius must be thirty meters at least.

    Його радіус має бути як мінімум тридцять метрів.

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

    Як підрахувати радіус, коли відома довжина кола?

    deWie berechnet man den Radius, wenn man den Umfang kennt?

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  4. What is the radius of a hydrogen atom?

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  5. The radius is a bone in the forearm.

    ruЛучевая кость - это кость предплечья.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
bone (human):
line segment:
Русский
By meaning 2
bone (human):
line segment:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
bone (human):
line segment:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin radius (“ray”). Doublet of ray.

Borrowed from Latin radius (“ray”). Doublet of ray.

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Forms

plural: radii / radiuses
Singularradius
Pluralradii / radiuses

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
vein of insect wing:R
Close in meaning
  • the length of a line segment between the center and circumference of a circle or sphere:r
  • support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim:spokewheel spoke

Word family

28 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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