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. Kevin Ling:

   As I got closer, the flames were just bigger and bigger, it was shooting up to 200 feet or more, and a fireball maybe 10 to 15 feet in diameter. It was like out of a movie.

2. Jim Jobling:

   It fires a shell that is about 3 inches in diameter, it could have been used as case shot, or shrapnel, on ongoing soldiers or sailors in rowboats.

3. Raquel Corniuk:

   We look at how it’s twisted. Is it twisted versus braided? We are trying to look at how many strands does it have, its twine diameter, mesh stretch size.

4. Patrick Hartigan in a statement:

   On the evening of closest approach on Dec( ember) 21 they will look like a double planet, separated by only 1/5th the diameter of the full Moon, for most telescope viewers, each planet and several of their largest moons will be visible in the same field of view that evening.

5. 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.