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diameter

noun as in measurement across object

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However, while adult Great Whites have vertebrae about 8 cm wide, the vertebrae from the Darwin shark exceed 12 cm in diameter.

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Previous work suggested a diameter of about 30 meters and a rotation period closer to ten minutes.

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It is also larger than previous models, measuring eight millimeters in diameter and four millimeters in thickness.

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The 87-foot diameter spherical screen wraps above, below and behind us, but an emphasis on couch seating invites a cooperative environment.

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Your atoms are tiny—so very, very small that it would take about 100,000 of them, arranged in a line, to reach across the diameter of a single hair from your head.

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