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diameter

[dahy-am-i-ter] / daɪˈæm ɪ tər /
NOUN
measurement across object
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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

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

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

The towering magnet weighed 220 tons, its sixty-inch pole faces nearly twice the diameter of its predecessor’s at the old Rad Lab.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik