diameter
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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
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
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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