diameter
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- noun
- /daɪˈæmətər/
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diámetro
- The pipe has a diameter of 4 inches, making it suitable for the project.
- diameter in inches
- diameter in centimeters
- diameter in millimeters
Make a perfectly round one inch diameter hole in the skull.
- Make a perfectly round one inch diameter hole in the skull.
- So using wider diameter tubing could make a big difference.
- And some tubes on the inside have a smaller inner tube diameter than other tubes.
- But nanoplastics are less than one Micron in diameter.
- You don't want anything that is thicker than pencil diameter I would say.
- and we're going to look at a three inch diameter bladder cancer
- I use a laser now which has a diameter of the fiber optic cable.
Examples
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The hole, she observes, is about five feet in diameter and four feet deep.
Fiction book (1990) -
An asteroid 12 miles in diameter struck the Earth.
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Make sure that the diameter is exactly right.
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The only table was round and four feet in diameter, covered with green felt.
Fiction book (1993) -
You need to dig about two times the diameter of the pot.
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This island's about 10 miles in diameter?
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The hole was nearly the diameter of his ring finger, and he tested the edge.
Fiction book (1995) -
It's approximately the diameter of a basketball, eye catching and easily retrievable.
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lt's over 200 meters in diameter.
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A vault door has 20 bolts, each an inch in diameter.
Synonyms
The straight line across a circle through its center
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Etymology
Diameter comes from Greek parts dia- 'through' and metron 'measure'. So, a diameter is the 'measure' that goes 'through' a circle, the straight line across the middle that touches both edges. You can remember it by thinking of meter as a unit of measure.