diameter

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Recent Examples of diameter In fiber and yarn monitoring during spinning, high-speed optical sensors can analyze the yarn’s diameter, mass variation, hairiness and neps (a type of yarn with clusters) across thousands of meters per minute to prevent downstream weaving breaks. Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 27 Aug. 2026 The find from the Neolithic site Karahan Tepe measures about 28 inches tall and would have sat on a platform along the wall of a larger round building roughly 10 feet in diameter. Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 27 Aug. 2026 The Denver metro area, I-25 corridor and Eastern Plains are under a Level two severe threat with damaging winds, gusts of up to 60 mph and possible hail larger than two inches in diameter. Alex Lehnert, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026 Nearly two miles underwater, southwest of Walker Seamount, in an unnamed volcanic feature, researchers spotted a golden orb about four inches in diameter, smooth and shiny, with a hole in the middle, attached to a rock on the seafloor. Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for diameter
Recent Examples of Synonyms for diameter
radius
Noun
  • Traders who subscribed to the service could get real-time quotes within a 40-mile radius of transmitters, which were located mostly in major cities.
    Brian Lund, Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The research team mapped where the 44,000 unsheltered people lived and superimposed those over maps of the theoretcial one-mile radius security zones.
    James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026

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“Diameter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diameter. Accessed 9 Sep. 2026.

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