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diametre

diametre is the alternative form of diameter.

Meaning of diameter

Noun

diameter (plural diameters)

  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. The maximum distance between any two points in a metric space.
  4. The maximum eccentricity over all vertices in a graph.

Forms of diametre

pluraldiametres

Origin of diametre

From Old French diametre (French diamètre), from Latin diametrus, from Ancient Greek διάμετρος (diámetros) (γραμμή (grammḗ)) (diametros grammē, “line measuring across”), from διά (diá, “across”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”).

Questions about diametre

What is diametre the alternative form of?
Diametre is the alternative form of diameter.

Words near diametre in the dictionary

  1. diameters
  2. diameterwise
  3. diametral
  4. diametrally
  5. diametrals
  6. diametre
  7. diametres
  8. diametric
  9. diametrical
  10. diametrically
  11. diamfenetide

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Adapted from Wiktionary: diametre (page history and authors); diameter (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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