diameter
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Roman has a 7.9-foot primary mirror, the same diameter as the Hubble Space Telescope's, along with two major scientific instruments.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
But because the diameter of the Moon is 400 times less than the Sun's, they appear exactly the same size in our sky.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
And it has to come from a place that looks localized to the mouth, and it has to be the same diameter of the actor’s mouth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
At the eclipse's maximum point, about 93% of the Moon's diameter will lie within Earth's dark central shadow, known as the umbra.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
The trunk was at least twenty feet in diameter, with branches as tall as any in the park.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
An artist's impression of a red dwarf with a white dwarf binary companion behind, with the diameters shown to scale.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
It orbits extremely close to its star, only about three stellar diameters above the surface.
From Science Daily ● May 5, 2026
Which is to say, Porsche invented an entirely new flat-six—different bore diameters and everything—just to clear 11 centimeters under the engine cover.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Hailstones, some with diameters of around 2 inches, also fell over parts of the city.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2024
In this, as in other similar stocks, several collets with dies of various pitches and diameters of thread, fit to one stock.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
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