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. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.