radius

noun

Definition of radiusnext
as in diameter

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Recent Examples of radius The news organizations tested 35 properties within a three-quarter-mile radius of Haney’s home. — Chris Bowling, ProPublica, 5 Aug. 2026 Poor bakery, just that morning the site of furious, wholesome communal activity, for decades the source of warm pandesal for everyone within a five-hundred-meter radius. — Literary Hub, 3 Aug. 2026 The spacecraft made some surprising discoveries, revealing that Mercury's core is huge — roughly 85% of its radius (Earth's core is only 50% of its own radius). — Tariq Malik, Space.com, 3 Aug. 2026 Shelter Hope and volunteers distributed flyers across the Thousand Oaks area and began working through incoming tips about sightings of Burt, eventually tracing eyewitness reports across a roughly 10-mile radius. — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 31 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for radius
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diameter
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  • However, the value for the sun’s diameter appears to be wrong, leaving eclipse maps — projections of the moon’s shadow — slightly askew.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The Metropolitan District Commission is seeking to install a new 30-inch diameter water transmission main through Windsor, Hartford, South Windsor and East Hartford and beneath both the Connecticut River and Podunk River.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug. 2026
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“Radius.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/radius. Accessed 10 Aug. 2026.

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