Diameter
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diameter-183-8345000
title:
Diameter
text:
In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the centre of the circle and whose endpoints lie on the circle. It can also be defined as the longest chord of the circle. Both definitions are also valid for the diameter of a sphere. In more modern usage, the length d of a diameter is also called the diameter. In this sense one speaks of the diameter rather than a diameter, because all diameters of a circle or sphere have the same length, this being twice the
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Straight line segment that passes through the centre of a circle
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diameter
date created:
2001-08-28T14:59:59Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T23:01:01Z
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