radius

About 10.28 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb.
2. noun The lighter bone (or fused portion of bone) in the forelimb of an animal.
3. noun 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. noun 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.

5. noun The length of this line segment.
6. noun 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.
7. noun The minimum eccentricity of any vertex, for a given graph.
8. verb To give a rounded edge to.

Similar words

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Often followed by

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Word family

radii radiuses