diameter
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The heat created by its beams can seal blood vessels just 2mm in diameter, about 5-6cm below the skin.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 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
“I think it was a 10-foot diameter ... everything kind of flowed back from that.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
Handling both the charge and recharge cycles is a reactor about 15 inches in diameter and 8 feet tall that can generate around 100 kilowatts of heat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
They had also cut smaller sticks—limbs and the tops of the trees—some of them five or six feet long and two or three inches in diameter.
From "The River" by Gary Paulsen
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
PM 2.5 refers to the level of tiny, hazardous particles - with diameters that are 2.5 micrometres or smaller - that can enter bloodstreams though the lungs.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2024
It consists of a hardened steel plate containing holes of varying diameters and threaded with screw threads of different pitches.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
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