radius

noun

• The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb.
• The lighter bone (or fused portion of bone) in the forelimb of an animal.
• 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.
• A line segment between any point of a circle or sphere and its center.
• 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.