diameter
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They resemble a glowing white tunnel, 30 feet long and 12 feet in diameter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
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
Soldiers cram into tunnels with a diameter of around 4 feet, sleeping in bunkers that are cut through the side of these steel tunnels, Ukrainian troops say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Five feet in diameter, forty feet long—as long as a school bus.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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
Astronomers these days are really interested in sub-Neptune planets, meaning those with diameters larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune.
From Salon ● May 31, 2025
Hailstones, some with diameters of around 2 inches, also fell over parts of the city.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2024
In wheels of larger diameter, short teeth are more permissible, because there are more teeth in contact, the number increasing with the diameters of the wheels.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
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