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  • noun Plural form of radius.

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Examples

  • They're very maneuverable with tight turning radiuses and get excellent traction even with modestly aggressive tread on the tires.

    Who makes the best pickup truck for huntin and fishin and why is it the best? 2009

  • They're very maneuverable with tight turning radiuses and get excellent traction even with modestly aggressive tread on the tires.

    Who makes the best pickup truck for huntin and fishin and why is it the best? 2009

  • We used to have 170,000 veterans in 75 mile radiuses.

    The man in charge of U.S. military cemeteries 2010

  • A gig stick allows you to form curved radiuses when attached to a running mould to give varying radi.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Thatsnews 2008

  • A gig stick allows you to form curved radiuses when attached to a running mould to give varying radi.

    Master Plaster treatment for Victorian Baths Thatsnews 2008

  • The “4 miles” is probably rounded to the nearest mile, but one conceivably draw these radiuses out from the post office location and get pretty close to the actual location.

    Stamford CT « Climate Audit 2007

  • Their Revolutionary War, horse and buggy era brains could not have computed the speeds, closing velocities, turning radiuses, breaking distances or any of the other things we all totally take for granted as we drive in traffic.

    Blink | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2006

  • Those who entered the hedge maze with the firm resolve to map out the hedge maze, to try to define it in terms of X number of rows and left and right turnings and longitudes and latitudes and degrees of angles and radiuses and circumferences discov - ered that here mathematics need not apply.

    Dragons of a Fallen Sun Weis, Margaret 2000

  • (In radial symmetry, similar organs or structures project outward from a center, like so many radiuses in a circle.)

    The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963

  • "I guess if you look in around midnight you'll find me drawing radiuses on the chart," he said quietly.

    On The Beach Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1957

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