diameter
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Granulation dates to Mesopotamia, but the Etruscans elevated the practice, using granules as small as 0.14 millimeter in diameter, one-seventh the size of those used by Mesopotamians and Egyptians.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Each structure measured roughly 10 to 20 centimeters in diameter.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2026
"It weighs 8.2kg, measures nearly 30cm in diameter and stands about 46cm tall - almost four times the size of a typical astrolabe from 17th Century India," said Carter.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
“I think it was a 10-foot diameter ... everything kind of flowed back from that.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
The trunk was at least twenty feet in diameter, with branches as tall as any in the park.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
An artist's impression of a red dwarf with a white dwarf binary companion behind, with the diameters shown to scale.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Which is to say, Porsche invented an entirely new flat-six—different bore diameters and everything—just to clear 11 centimeters under the engine cover.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Hailstones, some with diameters of around 2 inches, also fell over parts of the city.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2024
The larger, so-called coarse particles, have diameters between 2.5 and 10 micrometers; some examples of this type of particulate matter include wind-blown dust, fly ash and animal or vegetal particles.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2023
In wheels of larger diameter, short teeth are more permissible, because there are more teeth in contact, the number increasing with the diameters of the wheels.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
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The ACT Math Test: Geometry, List 1
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