diameter
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With a steady hand, she manoeuvred a huge wind turbine section, five metres in diameter, across the yard.
From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026
They are considered harmless to humans and are predominantly found sitting in large webs often more than a metre in diameter.
From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026
Some early models of the satellite dishes measured 16 feet in diameter, and hundreds of thousands of them sprouted up across the country.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
"At the same time, changing and adjusting the diameter of the microdroplets containing a biologically active substance nanodose is only possible by varying the oil phase flow rate."
From Science Daily • Jan. 17, 2026
The size of the universe is, to be a little generous, a sphere about 40 billion light-years in diameter.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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The ACT Math Test: Geometry, List 1
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