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• radius

  rădĭus, ii, m. [cf.: radix, ramus], a staff, rod. I In gen.: acuti radii immissi, stakes , Liv. 3...

  A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

• radius

  radius ī, m 2 RAD-, a staff, rod : acuti, stakes , L.—In a wheel, a spoke : hinc radios trivere ...

  An Elementary Latin Dictionary

• Radius

  ·noun The barbs of a perfect feather. II. Radius ·noun Radiating organs, or color-markings, of the ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Radius vector

  ·noun An ideal straight line joining the center of an attracting body with that of a body describing...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• radius-vector

  An imaginary line joining the centres of the sun and a planet or comet in any point of its orbit. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• radius-bar of parallel motion

  An intervening lever for guiding the side-rods of a steam-engine. ...

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