diameter
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Upon arrival, the Fire Department located five separate spot fires, all about five feet in diameter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
But because the diameter of the Moon is 400 times less than the Sun's, they appear exactly the same size in our sky.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
And it has to come from a place that looks localized to the mouth, and it has to be the same diameter of the actor’s mouth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Each structure measured roughly 10 to 20 centimeters in diameter.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2026
He’d brought the two coils of rope from the locker and he measured the diameter of them with the span of his hand and that by three and then counted the number of coils.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
Which is to say, Porsche invented an entirely new flat-six—different bore diameters and everything—just to clear 11 centimeters under the engine cover.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Astronomers these days are really interested in sub-Neptune planets, meaning those with diameters larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune.
From Salon ● May 31, 2025
Hailstones, some with diameters of around 2 inches, also fell over parts of the city.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2024
The diameters of these channels are five times thinner than a human hair.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 21, 2024
Variation of shape from using different diameters of rolling circles 16 Thrust on the wheel shafts caused by different shapes of teeth 16 Gear-Wheels.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
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The ACT Math Test: Geometry, List 1
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