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DIAM

Dictionary entry overview: What does diam mean?

• DIAM (noun)
The noun DIAM has 1 sense:

1. the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference

Familiarity information: DIAM used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• DIAM (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

diam; diameter

Hypernyms ("diam" is a kind of...):

length (the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest horizontal dimension of something that is fixed in place)

Meronyms (parts of "diam"):

r; radius (the length of a line segment between the center and circumference of a circle or sphere)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diam"):

bore; caliber; calibre; gauge (diameter of a tube or gun barrel)

windage (the space between the projectile of a smoothbore gun and the surface of the bore of the gun)

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