Dictionary Entry
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
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- 1noun
A right line drawn or extending from the center of a circle to the periphery; the semidiameter of a circle or sphere.
- 2noun
The preaxial bone of the forearm, or brachium, corresponding to the tibia of the hind limb. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.
- 3noun
A ray, or outer floret, of the capitulum of such plants as the sunflower and the daisy. See Ray, 2.
- 4noun
The barbs of a perfect feather.
- 5noun
Radiating organs, or color-markings, of the radiates.
- 6noun
The movable limb of a sextant or other angular instrument.
- 7noun
support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim
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- 8noun
the length of a line segment between the center and circumference of a circle or sphere
- 9noun
the outer and slightly shorter of the two bones of the human forearm
- 10noun
a circular region whose area is indicated by the length of its radius
"they located it within a radius of 2 miles"
- 11noun
a straight line from the center to the perimeter of a circle (or from the center to the surface of a sphere)
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