Diameter in a sentence

Capillaries have no smooth muscle surrounding them and have a diameter less than that of red blood cells ; a red blood cell is typically 7 micrometers outside diameter, capillaries typically 5 micrometers inside diameter.

Diaphragm Diaphragm couplings transmit torque from the outside diameter of a flexible plate to the inside diameter, across the spool or spacer piece, and then from inside to outside diameter.

During the Devonian, maximum xylem diameter increased with time, with the minimum diameter remaining pretty constant. citation By the middle Devonian, the tracheid diameter of some plant lineages ( Zosterophyllophytes ) had plateaued.

Four piece with two hanging toms If a second hanging tom is used, it is 10" diameter and 8" deep for fusion, or 13" diameter and one inch deeper than the 12" diameter tom.

Size distribution The same hypothetical log-normal aerosol distribution plotted, from top to bottom, as a number vs. diameter distribution, a surface area vs. diameter distribution, and a volume vs. diameter distribution.

The choke typically consists of a conical section that smoothly tapers from the bore diameter down to the choke diameter, followed by a cylindrical section of the choke diameter.

It features a payload fairing with a diameter of either 1.2 m (3.9 ft) or 1.5 m (4.9 ft) in diameter.

The new EPA rule would require states, counties, and tribal governments to meet a stricter air quality standard for fine particulate matter up to 2.5 microns in diameter – far smaller than the diameter of a human hair.

The average stone size from the storm was 5 inches in diameter, with another stone reportedly 8 inches in diameter.

A convert length of the convert diameter pipe and a convert length of the convert diameter pipe were lifted from the ground and the openings sealed.

An example of this device is shown in the figure on the right; it had a 0.125 inch diameter hole, was 1.9 inches long, and 0.8 inches in diameter.

Any diameter of any great circle coincides with a diameter of the sphere, and therefore all great circles have the same circumference as each other, and have the same center as the sphere.

A rimless cartridge case of 55mm length was approved, and each possible measurement (diameter at base, diameter at neck, angle of case, angle of shoulder etc.) was decided upon.

At main in diameter, Callisto has about 99% the diameter of the planet Mercury but only about a third of its mass.

A toroid with a major diameter that is much larger than the secondary diameter provides improved shaping of the electrical field at the topload.

A typical single mode optical fiber has a core diameter between 8 and 10.5 µm citation and a cladding diameter of 125 µm.

Construct a circle with a given diameter * Construct the midpoint M of the diameter.

Designed with 7" diameter instead of 8" diameter form-and-fit factors, and employing active transmit-receive radar guidance instead of semi-active receive-only radar guidance, it is a fire-and-forget upgrade to the previous generation Sparrow missiles.

Diamond dies must be rebored when they have lost their original diameter of hole, but metal dies are brought down to size again by hammering up the hole and then drifting it out to correct diameter with a punch.

E.C. Pickering produced an estimated diameter of main in 1879, which is close to the modern value for the mean diameter, but the subsequent estimates ranged from a low of main up to a high of main during the next century.