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radius

/ˈɹeɪ.di.əs/

noun

Meaning

  • The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb.

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

  • 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.

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

  • The length of this line segment.

  • 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.

Synonyms

R