diameter
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It is feasible that the winning team will have had to travel a distance the equivalent to the diameter of the Earth.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
“I think it was a 10-foot diameter ... everything kind of flowed back from that.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
The dragging of ship anchors, a main way cables get taken out, can damage even armored cables, which are wrapped in steel wire but still roughly the diameter of a ping-pong ball.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
Saturn's magnetosphere is enormous, extending to more than 10 times the planet's diameter.
From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026
The club itself was a massive cobalt blue sphere, three kilometers in diameter, floating thirty meters off the ground.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
Vocabulary lists containing diameter
Pi Day Vocabulary
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The ACT Math Test: Geometry, List 1
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