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diameter

[dahy-am-i-ter] / daɪˈæm ɪ tər /
NOUN
measurement across object
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The bass society limits sonar users to one transducer, while viewing screens can’t have a diameter of more than 55 inches.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

“I think it was a 10-foot diameter ... everything kind of flowed back from that.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

Saturn's magnetosphere is enormous, extending to more than 10 times the planet's diameter.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 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 program for Redwing included the first airborne drop of a thermonuclear device, which created an enormous fireball four miles in diameter when it detonated fifteen thousand feet over Bikini.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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