diameter

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Handling both the charge and recharge cycles is a reactor about 15 inches in diameter and 8 feet tall that can generate around 100 kilowatts of heat.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

With a steady hand, she manoeuvred a huge wind turbine section, five metres in diameter, across the yard.

From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026

This layer leaves only a circular opening with a diameter of 200 nanometers at the center.

From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2026

Measuring roughly 55 feet long and 18 feet wide, the float featured a dense seascape of corals, fish and oversize sea stars, some spanning 4 feet in diameter.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2026

Its self-winding clock told the time in days, hours, minutes, and seconds, from a face seven feet in diameter.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson