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Radius
ˈreɪdiəs
Radius definitions
noun
radii
radiuses
radius
- a straight line from the centre to the circumference of a circle or sphere
- a radial line from the focus to any point of a curve
- the length of the radius of a circle or sphere
- a specified distance from a centre in all directions
"there are plenty of local pubs within a two-mile radius"
- the thicker and shorter of the two bones in the human forearm
- the bone in a vertebrate's foreleg or a bird's wing that corresponds to the radius in a human being
- any of the main veins in an insect's wing
- a radially symmetric feature in an echinoderm or coelenterate, e.g. an arm of a starfish
verb
radiuses
radiusing
radiused
radius
- give a rounded form to (a corner or edge)
"Brian carefully radiused all the sharp edges and corners"