diameter

The largest trees in the thinned stands were 20% bigger in diameter than those in the unharvested control areas.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

Upon arrival, the Fire Department located five separate spot fires, all about five feet in diameter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 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

Although the Sun has a diameter roughly 400 times that of the Moon, it is also about 400 times farther from Earth, making both bodies appear identical sizes in the sky.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Using Avogadro’s mathematics, chemists were eventually able to work out, for instance, that a typical atom had a diameter of 0.00000008 centimeters, which is very little indeed.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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

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

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

From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

Surfaces are not quite true or even, thicknesses variable, firing intensity somewhat spotty; diameters vary enough for the eye to see some lopsidedness from the round, or sway in the level of a rim.

From Mohave Pottery by Michaell J. Harner