diameter
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Upon arrival, the Fire Department located five separate spot fires, all about five feet in diameter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 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
Although the Sun has a diameter roughly 400 times that of the Moon, it is also about 400 times farther from Earth, making both bodies appear identical sizes in the sky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
These fibrils were then combined with potassium hydroxide and formed into porous beads measuring about half a centimeter to one centimeter in diameter.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
She opened the bag and brought out a thin bronze disk the diameter of a donut.
From "The Mark of Athena" 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
The leading threads are of the same angle as the thread on the bolt, but their diameters are 3⁄4 and 1⁄16th inch, which allows the nut to pass easily upon the bolt.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
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