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Radian
A SI-derived unit of plane angle measurement defined and named by James Thomson in 1873. One radian is the plane angle between two radii of a circle that cuts off on the circumference an arc equal in length to the radius. There are 2pi radians in a complete circle. SI units: m/m = 1. (NCI Thesaurus)
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