Synonyms for diameter
daɪˈæm ɪ tərdi·am·e·ter

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1. diameter, diamnoun

   the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference

   Synonyms:
   diam

2. diameternoun

   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)

   Synonyms:
   diam

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1. diameternoun

   Synonyms:
   distance through the centre (as of a circle)

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1. List of paraphrases for "diameter":

   diameters, bore, dia

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1. Sam Deen:

   Based on the given absolute magnitude, and given how exceptionally red it looked in 2014 precovery images from CFHT (the g - r color was 0.9, and r - i was 0.5!) I would estimate at an albedo of 0.01-0.08 a diameter of 130-370 kilometers (nominally 160) which puts it on a similar scale, if not larger than, Sarabat's huge comet C/1729 P1, and almost undoubtedly the largest Oort Cloud object ever discovered- almost in dwarf planet territory! i have little doubt in my mind that as this gets closer to the sun, it will begin displaying the coma and tail typical of every other object yet seen in its orbit.

2. Ken Farley:

   This was completely unexpected, and we are struggling to understand what it means, but I will speculate that this is not likely the original crater floor. From the diameter of Jezero Crater, we expect the original crater floor is significantly deeper than where we are right now.

3. Le Cun:

   There is an eight-foot buoy floating at the point of the intake piping, which has been in place since the plant opened, and states that people should stay 100 feet away. There are three intake pipes, which extend for a quarter mile along the floor of the ocean, and the one that the diver swam into is 16 feet in diameter with a protective cap.

4. Alex Walsh:

   Organoids are small pieces of a patients' tumor that are about 100 to 300 microns in diameter and they grow as kind of sphere like shapes.

5. Ron Blankstein:

   The penile artery that delivers the blood flow to the penis is a much smaller diameter, and it's the smaller blood vessels which show the first signs of disease, they are unable to dilate and deliver sufficient blood flow.