diameter
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Noun (2)
- the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumferenceSynonyms: diamType of lengthKinds bore, windageParts radius, r
- 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)Type of straight line
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Translations
Noun line through the centre of a circle
- Spanish
- diámetro
- French
- diamètre
- German
- Durchmesser
- Italian
- diametro
- Portuguese
- diâmetro
- Turkish
- çap
- Russian
- диа́метр diámetr
- Arabic
- قُطْر quṭr
- Chinese
- 直径 zhíjìng
- Japanese
- 直径 chokkei
24 more languages
- Dutch
- diameter
- Polish
- średnica
- Swedish
- diameter
- Greek
- διάμετρος diámetros
- Korean
- 지름 jireum
- Indonesian
- diameter
- Vietnamese
- đường kính
- Hungarian
- átmérő
- Portuguese (PT)
- diâmetro
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 直徑 zhíjìng
- Catalan
- diàmetre
- Czech
- průměr
- Danish
- diameter
- Esperanto
- diametro
- Estonian
- diameeter
- Finnish
- halkaisija
- Georgian
- დიამეტრი diameṭri
- Hebrew
- קוטר qot'er
- Icelandic
- þvermál
- Norwegian
- diameter
- Romanian
- diametru
- Serbo-Croatian
- promjer
- Swahili
- kipenyo
- Welsh
- diamedr
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F. diamètre, L. diametros, fr. Gr. …; διά through + … measure. See Meter.
1. Geometry (a) Any right line passing through the center of a figure or body, as a circle, conic section, sphere, cube, etc., and terminated by the opposite boundaries; a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords drawn in a curve. (b) A diametral plane.
2. The length of a straight line through the center of an object from side to side; width; thickness; as, the diameter of a tree or rock.
☞ In an elongated object the diameter is usually taken at right angles to the longer axis.
3. Architecture The distance through the lower part of the shaft of a column, used as a standard measure for all parts of the order. See Module.
Conjugate diameters. See under Conjugate.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
The diameter of a graph is the maximum value of the minimum distance between any two nodes.