Synonyms:
diameter, diam
Meaning: the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference
Synonyms:
diameter
Meaning: a straight line connecting the center of a circle with two points on its perimeter (or the center of a sphere with two points on its surface)
Usage examples
Each of these chimneys was a hundred feet in diameter.
I frequently found specimens fifty feet high less than five inches in diameter.
I have already mentioned that it was a hundred feet in diameter, and three hundred feet round.
Full-grown specimens are from forty to fifty feet in height and from two to three feet in diameter.
It appears to be about 20 miles in diameter, and weighs therefore, if composed of rock, 40 billion tons.
The crater of Snaefell resembled an inverted cone, the opening of which might be half a league in diameter.
The average size of the tree is about thirty or forty feet in height and twelve to fourteen inches in diameter.
Vesta is bigger than any of the others, being five hundred miles in diameter, and shines like a star of the sixth magnitude.
The cones are about fifteen to eighteen inches long, and three in diameter; green, shaded with dark purple on their sunward sides.
A hole several feet in diameter marked the spot where the crucible fell. The stuff had delayed not an instant in working its havoc.