diameter
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The ring itself might start out many miles in diameter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
“I think it was a 10-foot diameter ... everything kind of flowed back from that.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
Saturn's magnetosphere is enormous, extending to more than 10 times the planet's diameter.
From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 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
He started from scratch, replacing Edlefsen’s lumps of metal and sealing wax with a vacuum chamber fashioned from brass in the shape of a flat cylinder four inches in diameter.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Vocabulary lists containing diameter
Pi Day Vocabulary
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The ACT Math Test: Geometry, List 1
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