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[ray-dee-uhs] / ˈreɪ di əs /


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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

Yes, this particular region, about 24.3 cqurzots in radius, is definitely lower than the vast plains outside the depression.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

It started a "limited" number of flights in Febraury, allowing customers within a 7.5 mile radius of its County Durham site to have certain items delivered by drone.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

At about ten or twenty thousand million years ago, it would have a minimum size, which was equal to the maximum radius of the history in imaginary time.

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

The mission is approaching its 19th perihelion on March 30, 2024 at a distance of 11.5 solar radii from Sun center.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2024

PSP uses a series of Venus flyby's to gradually reduce its perihelion from 36 solar radii in 2018 to 9.5 in 2025.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 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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