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radii

American  
[ray-dee-ahy] / ˈreɪ diˌaɪ /

noun

  1. a plural of radius.


radii British  
/ ˈreɪdɪˌaɪ /

noun

  1. a plural of radius

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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One possibility is the Milky Way's central bar, whose gravity may cause gas to accumulate at certain radii.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2026

Overall, both mechanisms produce a lack of planets with sizes around two Earth radii.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 2024

For comparison, the main part of Saturn's rings sits at just three planetary radii from the gas giant.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 11, 2023

In simulations, the researchers included an object about the size of Iapetus, Saturn’s third largest moon, orbiting about 43 Saturn radii out—between the orbits of Titan and Iapetus.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 14, 2022

I pulled out my graph paper and my French curves, which would help me draw curves of different radii.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

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