diameter
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“I think it was a 10-foot diameter ... everything kind of flowed back from that.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
The dragging of ship anchors, a main way cables get taken out, can damage even armored cables, which are wrapped in steel wire but still roughly the diameter of a ping-pong ball.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
With a steady hand, she manoeuvred a huge wind turbine section, five metres in diameter, across the yard.
From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026
The device measures approximately 10 cm in diameter and 30 cm long and has a red anodised finish.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026
Its diameter matched that of the silver egg I held in my hands.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
Vocabulary lists containing diameter
Pi Day Vocabulary
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The ACT Math Test: Geometry, List 1
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List 2
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