Radius

English

The radius of a circle, shown in red

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Noun

1. Template:Lb The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb.
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2. Template:Lb The lighter bone (or fused portion of bone) in the forelimb of an animal.
3. Template:Lb 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. Template:Lb A line segment between any point of a circle or sphere and its center.

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5. Template:Lb The length of this line segment.
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6. 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.
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7. Template:Lb The minimum eccentricity of any vertex, for a given graph.

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Verb

1. Template:Lb To give a rounded edge to.
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Etymology

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Noun

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References

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Danish

Etymology

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Noun

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Esperanto

Verb

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Faroese

Noun

1. Template:Lb radius

French

Etymology

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Indonesian

Etymology

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Noun

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   1. Template:Lb a line segment between any point of a circle or sphere and its center; the length of this line segment

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2. area of a circle, commonly with epicenter as center

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Latin

Etymology

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Noun

1. a staff, rod
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   2. a rod for measurement
   3. the radius of a circle; a rotating radial arm
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   6. the spur of a bird's leg
   7. the tail-spine of a stingray
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3. the name of an elongated variety of olive
4. the name of a rod with which geometers make figures in dust, also known as a virga

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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Noun

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References

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Template:Bor.

Noun

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Romanian

Etymology

Template:Bor+, Template:Bor. Compare the inherited doublet Template:Doublet.

Noun

1. Template:Lb Template:L (bone)

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