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radius

[rey-dee-uhs] / ˈreɪ di əs /


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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

The vessels are prohibited to approach the exclusion zone of three kilometres radius from the volcano, local port authorities said in a statement.

From Barron's Sep. 6, 2026

I was seemingly the only Asian child in a five-mile radius.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

Some big retailers operate their own distribution centers, typically within a 200-mile radius of stores.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

If the stain were shaped like a circle, or like a square or a triangle, it would be easy to figure out; just take a ruler and measure its radius or its height and base.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

Overall, both mechanisms produce a lack of planets with sizes around two Earth radii.

From Science Daily Feb. 9, 2024

As a class, such stars are among the largest in the universe, with radii up to 1,500 times that of our sun and masses of up to 40 times larger than our home star.

From Scientific American Jul. 21, 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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