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radius

[rey-dee-uhs] / ˈreɪ di əs /


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In Modoc County, which borders Oregon and Nevada, one optometrist serves a 90-mile radius.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

By carefully adjusting the radius and depth of each cavity, they could control both the resonance wavelength and the vertical position of the optical mode.

From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 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

A neutron star has a radius of about ten miles, only a few times the critical radius at which a star becomes a black hole.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking




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