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diameter

/dahy-am-i-ter/US // daɪˈæm ɪ tər //UK // (daɪˈæmɪtə) //

径,径路,径直,径的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Geometry. a straight line passing through the center of a circle or sphere and meeting the circumference or surface at each end.a straight line passing from side to side of any figure or body, through its center.
    • : the length of such a line.
    • : the width of a circular or cylindrical object.

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Examples

  • I also like a slightly wider tire over the stock rubber, but I usually only get an inch larger diameter tire.

  • For now, the team plans to set the diameter of the cones by hand.

  • Both are tiny—Phobos, the larger, is 14 miles in diameter, scarcely bigger than Manhattan Island—but they also circle extremely close to the planet.

  • In contrast, a raindrop’s diameter can be 20 to 30 times that size.

  • Those deep sockets can increase the eye’s visual ability without increasing its diameter.

  • Kepler-186f is about 11 percent larger than Earth in diameter, which means it has nearly 25% more surface area.

  • An array of whittled bamboo sticks, each four millimeters in diameter, makes up the two-room installation.

  • The doctors discovered the entry wound into the frontal lobe with a diameter about equal to that of a cigarette.

  • Using a 2-inch (5cm) diameter ring cutter, cut the scallops into straight cylinders; reserve the trim.

  • Pi is officially defined as the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.

  • In cross-section the burrows varied from round (three inches in diameter) to oval (three inches high and four inches wide).

  • Reckoning that Neptune is the outermost planet of the solar system, that system would have a diameter of 5,584 millions of miles.

  • I think 6½ feet diameter for the fly, and 9½ inches diameter for the small wheel, will give speed enough to the drum.

  • The organism is an actively motile spiral thread, about four times the diameter of a red corpuscle in length.

  • The care shown in rearing insures a perfect straightness of stem, and an equable diameter of about an inch or an inch and a half.