15 Metaphors for diameters

diameter, and the angle formed by the two sides of the cone is approximately 30 degrees.

The diameter of the wire is 55/100 (22 mm.), its length eighteen meters (60 feet), its resistance one ohm; ¾ ampere is needed to work it, and less than a watt is absorbed by it.

The diameter of each cylinder is 82-1/2 inches, the length of travel or stroke of the piston is 6 feet, and the nominal power is 500 horses.

Its greatest width is at the cheek, as shown by the section figure 3, where the transverse diameter is about half the height.

The mean diameter of each story is exactly one-fifth of its height, and the material is alternate courses of marble and red sandstone, the entire exterior surface being incrusted with inscriptions from the Koran, sculptured in sharp relief.

The centre is much occupied by banks, which entirely surround FAURE ISLAND; the diameter of which is about two leagues.

The diameter of the cross head at the centre is 2 inches, the thickness of each jaw around the bearing 1 inch, and the breadth of each 9/16 inch. 628.

The gun destined for the siege of Constantinople far exceeded in size this monster, and the diameter of its mouth must have been nearly two feet and a half.

Measuring from a fixed position of the earth, it would give similarly a series of positions of Mars, which, though lying not far from the circle whose diameter was the axis of Mars' orbit, joining perihelion and aphelion, always fell inside the circle except at those two points.

The diameter of the wheel is 19 ft. 4 in., so that the diameter of the rolling circle is about 2/3ds of the diameter of the wheel, and this is a frequent proportion.

A.In well formed bolts, the spiral groove penetrates about one twelfth of the diameter of the cylinder round which it winds, so that the diameter of the solid cylinder which remains is five sixths of the diameter over the thread.

The diameter of the city must have been eleven miles, since Strabo tells us that the actual limit of Rome was at a place between the fifth and sixth milestone from the column of Trajan in the Forum,the central and most conspicuous object in the city except the capitol.

the diameter of the clip drum is 2.743 meters (9 feet), while in the remaining tugs it is 3.056 meters (10 feet).

The diameter of each cross head journal will be 0.01716 times the square root of the pressure on the piston in lbs.

The diameter of the rings is about 45 cm.

15 Metaphors for  diameters