Diameter

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File:Diameter.png
Diameter shown as a red line

Noun

Diameter (plural Diameters)
  1. (geometry) Any straight line between two points on the circumference of a circle that passes through the centre/center of the circle.
  2. (geometry) The length of such a line.
  3. (geometry) For a set in a metric space is the maximum distance between two points
  4. (graph theory) The maximum eccentricity over all vertices in a graph.

Thesaurus

air line, amplitude, area, axis, beeline, bigness, bisector, body, bore, boundary, breadth, bulk, caliber, center, chord, core, coverage, depth, diagonal, diaphragm, dimension, dimensions, direct line, directrix, divider, edge, equator, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, gauge, girth, great-circle course, greatness, halfway mark, heart, height, interior, kernel, largeness, length, line of demarcation, magnitude, mass, mean, measure, measurement, median, middle, midmost, midriff, midst, normal, nucleus, partition, perpendicular, proportion, proportions, radius, radius vector, range, reach, right line, scale, scope, secant, segment, semidiameter, shortcut, side, size, spread, straight, straight course, straight line, straight stretch, straightaway, streamline, tangent, thick, thick of things, transversal, vector, volume, waist, waistline, width, zone

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Noun

Diameter m. (plural diameters)

  1. diameter (length of diametrical chord)

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Swedish

Noun

diameter c.

  1. (geometry) diameter