radius

radius is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A right line drawn or extending from the center of a circle to the periphery; the semidiameter of a circle or sphere. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A right line drawn or extending from the center of a circle to the periphery; the semidiameter of a circle or sphere.
2. noun. The preaxial bone of the forearm, or brachium, corresponding to the tibia of the hind limb. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.
3. noun. A ray, or outer floret, of the capitulum of such plants as the sunflower and the daisy. See Ray, 2.
4. noun. The barbs of a perfect feather.
5. noun. Radiating organs, or color-markings, of the radiates.
6. noun. The movable limb of a sextant or other angular instrument.
7. noun. support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim

   Synonyms: spoke

8. noun. the length of a line segment between the center and circumference of a circle or sphere
9. noun. the outer and slightly shorter of the two bones of the human forearm
10. noun. a circular region whose area is indicated by the length of its radius

    "they located it within a radius of 2 miles"

11. noun. a straight line from the center to the perimeter of a circle (or from the center to the surface of a sphere)

Synonyms

spoke

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in radius:

darius

Common word forms

radiused, radiuses, radiusing

Words from these letters

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