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diameter

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

Soldiers cram into tunnels with a diameter of around 4 feet, sleeping in bunkers that are cut through the side of these steel tunnels, Ukrainian troops say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

First created in 1980 in the Mojave Desert, the work involved students spreading red, yellow and black pigment in a geometric pattern more than 600 feet in diameter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 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

As I drove up in the minivan, I could see it was about ten feet deep and several hundred feet in diameter.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

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

Under extended exposure, the process produced nearly perfect nanodiamonds with a cubic crystal structure and diameters up to 10 nanometers, along with the release of hydrogen gas.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2025

They have up to 24 arms and can grow to diameters of more than three feet.

From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

By simply omitting a step at each end of the cone, the two tables given will be found equally well adapted for determining the diameters of cones having four and three steps respectively.

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


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