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Spoke vs Radius - What's the difference?

spoke | radius |

As nouns the difference between spoke and radius

is that spoke is a ghost (spirit appearing after death) while radius is radius.

spoke

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) spaca

Noun

(wikipedia spoke) (en noun)
  • A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim.
  • (nautical) A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
  • A rung of a ladder.
  • A device for fastening the wheel of a vehicle to prevent it from turning when going downhill.

    • Verb

    (spok)
  • To furnish (a wheel) with spokes.

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • (speak)

    • Statistics

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    Anagrams

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    radius

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (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
  • (geometry) A line segment between any point on the circumference of a circle and its center/centre.
  • (geometry) The length of this line segment.

    • Synonyms

    * (vein of insect wing) R

    Related terms

    * radial * radiate, radiation

    See also

    * ulna * semidiameter *

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