diameter
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The bass society limits sonar users to one transducer, while viewing screens can’t have a diameter of more than 55 inches.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
“I think it was a 10-foot diameter ... everything kind of flowed back from that.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
With a steady hand, she manoeuvred a huge wind turbine section, five metres in diameter, across the yard.
From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026
This layer leaves only a circular opening with a diameter of 200 nanometers at the center.
From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2026
Because the Martian atmosphere is only 1 percent as dense as the Earth’s, a very large parachute, eighteen meters in diameter, was deployed to slow the spacecraft as it entered the thin air of Mars.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing diameter
Pi Day Vocabulary
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The ACT Math Test: Geometry, List 1
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List 2
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