diameter
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With a steady hand, she manoeuvred a huge wind turbine section, five metres in diameter, across the yard.
From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026
Some early models of the satellite dishes measured 16 feet in diameter, and hundreds of thousands of them sprouted up across the country.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
After 24 hours of exposure, the outer diameter of the MicroShunt increased to 1.44 times its original size.
From Science Daily • Jan. 16, 2026
Measuring roughly 55 feet long and 18 feet wide, the float featured a dense seascape of corals, fish and oversize sea stars, some spanning 4 feet in diameter.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2026
Hundreds of steel cylinders, each of them six feet in diameter, were manufactured specially in Virginia and then transported by ship to the West German port of Bremerhaven.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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The ACT Math Test: Geometry, List 1
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