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First created in 1980 in the Mojave Desert, the work involved students spreading red, yellow and black pigment in a geometric pattern more than 600 feet in diameter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

By carefully controlling the laser's power and beam diameter, the researchers can ionize a narrow region of air, stripping electrons from atoms and molecules to produce plasma.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026

For the Magic 8 Ball, it was figuring out how the answer block could float without developing air bubbles, since his version is about an inch in diameter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 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

“The basket is twice the diameter of the ball,” he kept saying.

From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman

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

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

The larger, so-called coarse particles, have diameters between 2.5 and 10 micrometers; some examples of this type of particulate matter include wind-blown dust, fly ash and animal or vegetal particles.

From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2023

In a train of epicycloidal gearing in which the pinion or smallest wheel has radial flanks, the flanks of the teeth will become spread as the diameters of the wheels in the train increase.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose