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radius

noun
/ˈɹeɪ.di.əs/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin radius (“ray”). Doublet of ray.

  1. borrowed from radius

Definitions

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

    • It is also obvious, and proved by experiment, that the rotatory motions observed in the hand proceed from the rotatory motions of the radius.

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

  3. One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the subcosta and the media

    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.

  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. 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.
      • We start with spherical geometries. The two geometries on spheres of radiuses R₁ and R₂ are obviously identical if R₁ = R₂; moreover, the converse also holds.

    2. The length of this line segment.

    3. Anything resembling a radius, such as the spoke of a wheel, the movable arm of a sextant,…

      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.

    4. The minimum eccentricity of any vertex, for a given graph.

    5. To give a rounded edge to.

      • A comfortable grip is ensured by smoothing the surface of the handle and radiusing the edge.

    6. Initialism of Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service.

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Derived

atomic radius, blast radius, Bohr radius, circumradius, covalent radius, Debye radius, distal radius, Earth radius, Einstein radius, equiradiate, exradius, gyradius, gyroradius, Hill radius, hydraulic radius, hyperradius, inradius, interradius, ionic radius, metallic radius, potato radius, radian, radion, radius arm, radius bar, radius of action, radius of convergence, radius of curvature, radius of gyration, radius rod, radius vector, Roche radius, Schwarzschild radius, sight radius, triradius, van der Waals radius

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at radius. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at radius. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at radius

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA