Meaning & use
radiuses
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A plural form of "radius," used especially in everyday or non-technical contexts, referring to distances from a center point or straight lines from a circle's center to its edge.
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The search covered all towns within ten-mile radiuses of the epicenter.
The architect drew several radiuses to mark the curved edges of the plaza.
A note on using this word
In strict mathematical writing "radii" is the more traditional plural, but "radiuses" is widely accepted, especially in general or technical prose outside pure mathematics.
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