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cruising radius
noun
- the maximum distance that an aircraft or ship can traverse and then return to its starting point at cruising speed without refueling.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cruising radius1
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Example Sentences
He could not possibly reach any outpost of civilization in the torpoon, for her cruising radius was only twenty hours.
Further, it is capable of use in such a way as to add immensely to the cruising radius of submarines.
The 72-footers develop a speed of twenty-eight knots and have a cruising radius exceeding 1200 miles.
We had not been within the cruising radius more than four hours before the long-silent; cry of "Blo-o-o-w!"
When below surface she was a sealed tube of metal one hundred feet long, and possessed of an enormous cruising radius.
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