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How to pronounce “radius

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Pronunciation guide for radius

Learning goal
Practice the English pronunciation of radius with real speech in context.
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8 YouTube examples
Real speech example
The Little Book of Black Holescompress the sun down to a much smaller radius,
Definition summary
(anatomy) The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb.

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How to pronounce radius

The Little Book of Black Holes

compress the sun down to a much smaller radius,

Example Sentences

A Deep Dive Into “radius

Meaning

  • [Noun]
  • (anatomy) The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb.
  • (zoology) The lighter bone (or fused portion of bone) in the forelimb of an animal.
  • (entomology) 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.
  • (geometry) A line segment between any point of a circle or sphere and its center.
  • (geometry) The length of this line segment.
  • 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.
  • (graph theory) The minimum eccentricity of any vertex, for a given graph.
  • [Verb]
  • (transitive) To give a rounded edge to.

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