radius

Definitions

• (anatomy) The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb.
• (zoology) The lighter bone (or fused portion of bone) in the forelimb of an animal.
• (entomology) One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the subcosta and the media; the vein running along the costal edge of the discal cell.
• (geometry) A line segment between any point of a circle or sphere and its center.
• (geometry) The length of this line segment.
• Anything resembling a radius, such as the spoke of a wheel, the movable arm of a sextant, or one of the radiating lines of a spider's web.