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US
/daɪˈæmətɝ/
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[ UK /daɪˈæmɪtɐ/ ]
[ UK /daɪˈæmɪtɐ/ ]
NOUN
- the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference
- a straight line connecting the center of a circle with two points on its perimeter (or the center of a sphere with two points on its surface)
How To Use diameter In A Sentence
- Methone is a bit bigger than Anthe, at 3km (1.8 miles) in diameter, it too was discovered by the Cassini imaging team in 2004. Tom's Astronomy Blog
- A section of a branch of birch or willow from the north only a couple of inches in diameter will show one or two hundred annual rings. Factors Affecting Development of Canada's North
- The ordinary piki is shaped into loose rolls about 10 inches long and two inches in diameter, but the wedding piki is folded into flat pieces about 8 inches square.
- These cells, about 40 m in diameter and termed primary oocytes, are enclosed within a single layer of squamous cells, forming a primordial follicle.
- A conch-shell twenty inches long and ten in diameter will do for a sample -- not a small gasteropod! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
- For a typical 3-mm-diameter lens, the dioptric power can be controlled between - 100 and + 50 diopters.
- And the latices diameter and distributions were determined by High Performance Particle Size HPPS hpp5001 dynamic laser scatter instrument.
- The Brushy Basin sediments contain numerous chalcedony pseudomorph-after-barite concretions that range to more than 30 cm in diameter.
- According to the precise rate, the volume of the sphere is the cube of the diameter multiplied by 11 and divided by 21.
- Objects from 1 to 10 cm in size - about the diameter of a salad bowl - cause the real worry.
