Radius is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RADIUS in dictionary:

VERB:
• to give a rounded form to
• give a round shape
NOUN:
• (Latin) the shorter and thicker of the two arm bones
• (length of) a straight line from the centre to the circumference of a circle
• A right line drawn or extending from the center of a circle to the periphery; the semidiameter of a circle or sphere.
• The preaxial bone of the forearm, or brachium, corresponding to the tibia of the hind limb. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.
• A ray, or outer floret, of the capitulum of such plants as the sunflower and the daisy. See Ray, 2.
• The barbs of a perfect feather.
• Radiating organs, or color-markings, of the radiates.
• The movable limb of a sextant or other angular instrument.
• the length of a line segment between the center and circumference of a circle or sphere
• a straight line from the center to the perimeter of a circle (or from the center to the surface of a sphere)
• a circular region whose area is indicated by the length of its radius
• the outer and slightly shorter of the two bones of the human forearm
• support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim
• a straight line from the center to the circumference of a circle or sphere.
• the thicker and shorter of the two bones in the human forearm.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a straight line from the center of a circle to the circumference

Words related to RADIUS

radii6 radiused10 radiuses9 radiusing11

Words that contain RADIUS

radiused10 radiuses9 perradius12 radiusing11 interradius12 interradiuses14

How to use RADIUS in a sentence

• Thus, the fountains of four of the principal rivers of California are within a radius of four or five miles.
• It seemed to him that the creaking of his joints as he walked must be audible to everyone within a radius of several yards.
• A glance about me disclosed the fact that no other living thing was standing up within a radius of five hundred yards.
• In other words, the motion is one of translation, and the radius of curvature at P is infinite.
• These are succeeded by two tendons passing in common through a vertical groove at the lower end of the radius.
• The blinding glare of the searchlight aided the pursuers, who kept outside its radius.
• Back of these rivers, again, was a second chain of forts completely encircling the city on a five-mile radius.
• The pair of rails are curved to a suitable radius, and can only need turning end for end to form a curve in the direction required.
• To make this as large as possible, the distance between the mirrors, the radius, and the speed of rotation should be made as great as possible.
• The greater the distance, therefore, the smaller will be the radius.
• He only keeps all the other people in a four-mile radius wide awake.
• It has spread terror to all corners of the earth, and, taken in proportion to its size and steaming radius, may well be said to be the superior of the super-dreadnought.
• The imperfection of the means of communication rendered political unions of a greater area than that swept by a hundred-mile radius highly unstable.
• Their stores and offices were within a short radius of the hotel.
• Madame Levaille was a woman of business, known and respected within a radius of at least fifteen miles.
• It was all taken within the radius of eight leagues.
• He made a circuit of the group of trees within whose radius she had last appeared, but there was neither trace of her, nor suggestion of her mode of escape.
• The radius of the beam is but fifty inches, but the connections to it are made very long by links.
• Within a certain radius of her house the streets came under the influence of her presence.
• The world lay there within the radius of that swaying light, and I hung aloof, hearing her voice and jealous of the very companionship and sympathy between them.
• The radius increasing, and the surface remaining constant, the resistance of the earth here likewise approaches zero.
• By degrees we thus explored the whole country within a radius of seven miles of Ethel.
• Both secured the effect by cutting fine slits in a black disk in the direction of the radius.

Similar words containing RADIU without suffix s

radium9 radiums10 radiused10 radiuses9 perradius12 radiusing11 interradius12 interradiuses14

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