diameter
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With a steady hand, she manoeuvred a huge wind turbine section, five metres in diameter, across the yard.
From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026
The device measures approximately 10 cm in diameter and 30 cm long and has a red anodised finish.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026
Some early models of the satellite dishes measured 16 feet in diameter, and hundreds of thousands of them sprouted up across the country.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
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 • Jan. 20, 2026
Its self-winding clock told the time in days, hours, minutes, and seconds, from a face seven feet in diameter.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Vocabulary lists containing diameter
Pi Day Vocabulary
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The ACT Math Test: Geometry, List 1
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