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
Roman has a 7.9-foot primary mirror, the same diameter as the Hubble Space Telescope's, along with two major scientific instruments.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
At its peak, roughly 93% of the Moon's diameter will be covered, making the event look close to a total eclipse.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 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
But there was no doubt the metal was a sheet of hammered Celestial bronze, roughly circular, about five feet in diameter.
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
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
Arago made many measures of the diameters of the planets with such a micrometer.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
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The ACT Math Test: Geometry, List 1
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