diameter
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The biggest of those trees is about 160 feet tall and less than 7 feet in diameter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
"The 20-m diameter asteroid that caused the airburst over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013 went through the same phases."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 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
The break occurred on a water main pipe that’s about 8 inches in diameter, Workman said, and affected about 30 customers in the area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
As always, what appears to be only a yard in diameter is dozens of yards across once we climb inside.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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
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
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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