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diameter

[dahy-am-i-ter] / daɪˈæm ɪ tər /
NOUN
measurement across object
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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

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

And it has to come from a place that looks localized to the mouth, and it has to be the same diameter of the actor’s mouth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

At the eclipse's maximum point, about 93% of the Moon's diameter will lie within Earth's dark central shadow, known as the umbra.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

The size of the universe is, to be a little generous, a sphere about 40 billion light-years in diameter.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

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

The pitch of teeth may be selected so that with the given number of teeth the diameters of the wheels will be that required.

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


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