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radiusStraight line from the centre of a circle to its circumference, or from the centre to the surface of a sphere. radius
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the moment when she will be crossing the zenith, which latter event will further diminish the entire distance by a length equal to the radius of the earth, He who wears one of its mates will experience the same feeling; it is caused by an electrical action that takes place the moment two of these gems cut from the same mother stone come within the radius of each other's power. If on Friday night you had taken a pair of compasses and drawn a circle with a radius of five miles round the Woking sand pits, I doubt if you would have had one human being outside it, unless it were some relation of Stent or of the three or four cyclists or London people lying dead on the common, whose emotions or habits were at all affected by the new-comers. |
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