The discometer gave a distance, roughly speaking, of 40 terrestrial radii, or 160,000 miles.

The pair of rails are curved to a suitable radius, and can only need turning end for end to form a curve in the direction required.

The jurisdiction of the authorities of Manila shall not be recognized beyond the municipal radius.

Finally, the whole operation would be complicated by the question of fuel supply, especially to the destroyers and other small craft with a limited radius of action, since we could not depend upon Russian sources of supply.

Their tracks showed that they had spent their time for many weeks, and probably for all the winter, within a very narrow radius.

He had just passed the nearest radius to her circle and was proceeding along the tangent that he had laid out for himself, when the unwitting maid looked carefully down and saw a tangle of roots at her very feet.

Lower down the breast these feathers, however, begin to assume more of the ordinary shape; but the shafts still remain very thick and rigid, while each is terminated by a slender, naked filament, hornlike, shining, and somewhat flattened towards the end, where there are a few obsolete radii.

Radius makes the plural radii or radiuses.

Most of the other guests, though they had no direct and personal interest in the great scheme, more or less had heard rumours and come within reflective radius of the excitement; as for the rest, who knew nothing or cared less for Sir Stephen's railway, they were in a pleasant condition of excitement over the coming dance.

It seemed to Stella that everything and every one on and about Roaring Lake bore some mark of that holocaust raging in the timber, as if the fire were some malignant disease menacing and marring all that it affected, and affecting all that trafficked within its smoky radius.

The man was in the valley, but he had not yet reached that narrow throat where his lariat was of sufficient radius to cover the space between the wall of the cañon and the stream.

To fly across as he had that morning was one thing, but to pen one up in a nice little pocket in the hills, and then on a vertical radius of three or four thousand feet, to circle round over one's headanything yet devised by the human nightmare was crude and immature to this.

Fix upon any two points equally distant from the centre, in the line stretched transversely in the direction of the shaft; and from those points, as centres, and with any convenient radius, sweep across the fore and aft line to see that the two are at right angles; and, if not, shift the transverse line a little to make them so.

This meant that Captain Raleigh wanted the word sent to other vessels of the British fleet not within her own wireless radius.

Our own ignition is screened; but all others within the critical radius become impotent.

It was as if there were a little warm beautiful radius in which we could keep together, and live for each other, and comfort each other, and keep harm away.

The lookout man would not occupy his lonely cabin on Mount Baldy for several weeks to come, and Lorry's work kept him within a moderate radius of the home camp.