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To study the spiders' sleeping behavior, the team placed individual Portia fimbriata spiders in plastic dishes measuring 12 centimeters in diameter.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

Perhaps more importantly, the inserter is thinner—a 3.7 mm diameter to Paragard’s 4.75—with a rounded tip designed to make pushing the tube through the nerve-dense cervix and into the uterus less painful.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 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

Upon arrival, the Fire Department located five separate spot fires, all about five feet in diameter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

Its diameter is about half the earth’s, its surface desert-like, marked by huge mountains and deep canyons.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins

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

This enables the diameters of the threads to be in both cases tested by standard cylindrical gauges, while it facilitates the making of the screw gauges.

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