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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)
Answer for the clue "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) ", 8 letters:
diameter
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context geometry English) Any straight line between two points on the circumference of a circle that passes through the centre/center of the circle. 2 (context geometry English) The length of such a line. 3 (context geometry English) The maximum distance ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference [syn: diam ] a straight line connecting the center of a circle with two points on its perimeter (or the center of a sphere with two points ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French diametre , from Latin diametrus , from Greek diametros (gramme) "diagonal of a circle," from dia- "across, through" (see dia- ) + metron "a measure" (see meter (n.2)).
Usage examples of diameter.
It was as if the sky were covered with a thick cloud bank which absorbed the monstrous radiation of a sun now four times its previous diameter and madly changing shape like a monstrous ameba of flame.
Three immense ammonites, probably several feet in diameter, hung suspended in the clear water.
Through and throughout the entire volume of volatilization Nadreck drove analyzers and detectors, until he knew positively that no particle of material substance larger in diameter than five microns remained of either Kandron or his space-ship.
These drains are of wood, asphaltum coated, with an inside diameter ranging from 3 to 6 in.
In an effort to hide her Auca ancestry she combs her hair down to cover her disfigured ear lobes-- ear lobes once adorned with round balsa wood plugs more than an inch in diameter.
The basswood was fully three feet in diameter, and leaned slightly toward the brook.
As soon as the hull of the vessel, approximately spherical and a hundred meters in diameter, rose into view through the forcegate she recognized it as an advanced type of battlecraft, bearing the insignia of the planetary defense forces of Salutai.
They first pitched upon the almost circular island of Noemfoor, about eleven miles in diameter, midway between Biak and Manokwari.
A particularly showy native flower of the Planet Texas, three inches in diameter when fully opened, the bloodflower exuded a liquid of the color and consistency of human blood when disturbed.
Those Bofors masers will zap anything over fifty centimetres in diameter.
Within that narrow circle, four kilometres in diameter, stood Cartier dreaming of Asia, asking for permission to explore the mysterious square gulf, the St.
Four trees composed the centerpiece of this place, each over a thousand feet tall, and a hundred and fifty in diameter.
There was Ceres, the largest of all, nearly five hundred miles in diameter.
Bendix lightware number cruncher was in the centre of the room, a steel-blue globe one metre in diameter, sitting on a pedestal at chest height.
The dampeners pressed in on the conduit of plasma, narrowing its diameter, narrowing their view of the launch dome that now lay at its other end point.