radius
/ˈɹeɪ.di.əs/ sustantivo C1En español: radio
- 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. · Fatima claims to have visited all the bars within a five-mile radius of her Manhattan apartment.
- 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.
- The minimum eccentricity of any vertex, for a given graph.
Plural radii
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You may take it from me that naval warfare becomes impossible within the radius of a Bruce-Partington’s operation.
That gives a radius of ten or twelve miles, and he does it once, or sometimes twice, a day.”
Within a radius of five miles there are, as you see, only a very few scattered dwellings.
Candidates have to learn about twenty-five thousand streets within a six-mile radius of the center.
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