diameter
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In January, a 72-inch diameter pipe ruptured, spewing 243 million gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River in one of the worst wastewater spills in U.S. history.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
“I think it was a 10-foot diameter ... everything kind of flowed back from that.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 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
They are considered harmless to humans and are predominantly found sitting in large webs often more than a metre in diameter.
From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026
Because the Martian atmosphere is only 1 percent as dense as the Earth’s, a very large parachute, eighteen meters in diameter, was deployed to slow the spacecraft as it entered the thin air of Mars.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing diameter
Pi Day Vocabulary
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The ACT Math Test: Geometry, List 1
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List 2
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