diameter
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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
These tiny machines are around 50 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair, bringing researchers closer to the long-pursued goal of interacting directly with the microscopic world.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 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
A traditional arthroscope measures about 4 millimeters in diameter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
Your atoms are tiny—so very, very small that it would take about 100,000 of them, arranged in a line, to reach across the diameter of a single hair from your head.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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
To obtain these arcs for the small diameters of the wheels, draw m m parallel to j k.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
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