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. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.