diameter
UK/daɪˈæmɪtə(ɹ)//daɪˈæmɪdɚ/
diameter noun: any straight line between two points on the circumference of a circle that passes through the center of the circle; a chord that passes through the center of the circle.
Noun
diameter (plural diameters)
- Any straight line between two points on the circumference of a circle that passes through the center of the circle; a chord that passes through the center of the circle.
- The length of such a line.
- In cases without good face contact, the diameter of the toolholder at the front of the flange or the tool itself should not be any larger than the gage diameter of the toolholder shank from a bending stiffness viewpoint.2005, David A. Stephenson, John S. Agapiou, Metal Cutting Theory and Practice, page 280
- Viable non-malformed singleton pregnancies were selected for cerebellar measurements; transcerebellar diameter, (TCD), left and right cerebellar diameters (LCD, RCD).2015 October 23, “Periconception Maternal Folate Status and Human Embryonic Cerebellum Growth Trajectories: The Rotterdam Predict Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
- The maximum distance between any two points in a metric space.
- The maximum eccentricity over all vertices in a graph.
diameter meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
diameter in Hindi
- line
- व्यास vyās
- length of this line
- व्यास vyās
diameter in Tamil
- diameter
- விட்டம் viṭṭam
- diameter, intersection, transit
- குறுக்கு kuṟukku
diameter in Marathi
- line
- व्यास vyās
diameter in Urdu
- line
- قطر qotr
More languagesFewer languages
- diameter in Bengali
- ব্যাস bês
- diameter in Malayalam
- വ്യാസം
- diameter in Kannada
- ವ್ಯಾಸ vyāsa, ವ್ಯಾಸದ ಉದ್ದ vyāsada udda
- diameter in Gujarati
- વ્યાસ vyās
- diameter in Odia
- ବିସ୍ତାର bistāra, ବିସ୍ତୃତି bistruti
- diameter in Sanskrit
- कर्ण kárṇa
- diameter in Tagalog
- bantod, diyametro
- diameter in Arabic
- قُطْر quṭr
- diameter in Malay
- garis pusat, diameter
- diameter in Indonesian
- diameter
- diameter in Persian
- قطر qotr, ترامون tarâmun, گنج دوله gonj-e dowle, گنج gonj
- diameter in Thai
- เส้นผ่าศูนย์กลาง sên-pàa-sǔun-glaang, เส้นผ่านศูนย์กลาง sen-phan-sun-klang
- diameter in Vietnamese
- đường kính
Examples of diameter in a sentence
- For this task, I prefer the plastic bars that are 10 mills in diameter.
- For this task, I prefer the plastic bars that are 10 mils in diameter.
- Any two diameters of a circle intersect each other at the centre.
Forms of diameter
| plural | diameters |
|---|---|
| alternative abbreviation | ⌀ |
| alternative form (nonstandard, dated) | diametre |
Origin of diameter
From Old French diametre (French diamètre), from Latin diametros, from Ancient Greek διάμετρος (diámetros) (γραμμή (grammḗ)) (diametros grammē, “line measuring across”), from διά (diá, “across”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”). By surface analysis, dia- + -meter.
Words formed from diameter
Questions about diameter
- What does diameter mean?
- Diameter means any straight line between two points on the circumference of a circle that passes through the center of the circle; a chord that passes through the center of the circle.
- What is diameter in Hindi?
- Diameter in Hindi is व्यास (vyās). See Diameter meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is diameter?
- Diameter is a noun.
- How do you pronounce diameter?
- Diameter is pronounced /daɪˈæmɪtə(ɹ)/ (UK).
- What is the plural of diameter?
- The plural of diameter is diameters.
Words near diameter in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: diameter (page history and authors); குறுக்கு (Tamil) (page history and authors); diameter (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ବିସ୍ତାର (Odia) (page history and authors); कर्ण (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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