diameter

English

Diameter shown as a red line

Alternative forms

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /daɪˈæmɪtə(ɹ)/
  • (General American) enPR: dī-ăm'ĭtər, IPA(key): /daɪˈæmɪtɚ/, [-mɪɾɚ]
  • (file)

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) The maximum distance between any two points in a metric space
  4. (graph theory) The maximum eccentricity over all vertices in a graph.

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Danish

Noun

diameter c (singular definite diameteren, plural indefinite diametre)

  1. a Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

References

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French diamètre, from Latin diametrus, from Ancient Greek διάμετρος (diámetros). Equivalent to dia- + meter.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdi.aːˌmeː.tər/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: di‧a‧me‧ter

Noun

diameter m (plural diameters, diminutive diametertje n)

  1. diameter (length of diametrical chord)
  2. diameter (diametrical chord)
    Synonym: middellijn

Descendants

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from French diamètre, from Latin diametrus, from Ancient Greek διάμετρος (diámetros).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [dia̯ˈmɛtər]
  • Hyphenation: dia‧mè‧têr

Noun

diamètêr (first-person possessive diameterku, second-person possessive diametermu, third-person possessive diameternya)

  1. (geometry) Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • berdiameter
  • diameter jarum
  • diameter molekul
  • diameter parabola

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

diameter m (definite singular diameteren, indefinite plural diametere or diametre or diametrer, definite plural diameterne or diametrene)

  1. a Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

diameter m (definite singular diameteren, indefinite plural diameterar or diametrar, definite plural diameterane or diametrane)

  1. a Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

diameter c

  1. (geometry) diameter

Declension

Declension of Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) diametern diametrar diametrarna
Genitive diameters diameterns diametrars diametrarnas

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