Definition of "radius" in İngilizce

noun

1. (anatomy) The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb.

2. (zoology) The lighter bone (or fused portion of bone) in the forelimb of an animal.

3. (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.

4. (geometry) 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. (geometry) The length of this line segment.

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.

7. (graph theory) The minimum eccentricity of any vertex, for a given graph.

verb

1. (transitive) To give a rounded edge to.