diameter
Example Sentences
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The cost for treating oak wilt, or any tree disease that requires a fungicide injection, depends on the tree’s diameter at breast height, or DBH.
The crater had grown to 1,300 feet in diameter.
From Literature
By analyzing its length and diameter, the researchers assessed whether the bones could withstand the forces produced during hopping.
From Science Daily
Some early models of the satellite dishes measured 16 feet in diameter, and hundreds of thousands of them sprouted up across the country.
Together, these gas flows stretch across a distance greater than 100 times the planet's diameter, or more than three times the distance between the planet and its star.
From Science Daily
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