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- noun Alternative form of
diameter .
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An article published in the most recent edition of Nature magazine, has revealed UB313 nicknamed Xena, while its single moon is dubbed Gabrielle is around 3,000km wide - dwarfing Pluto's diametre of 2,300km.
Archive 2006-02-01 2006
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An article published in the most recent edition of Nature magazine, has revealed UB313 nicknamed Xena, while its single moon is dubbed Gabrielle is around 3,000km wide - dwarfing Pluto's diametre of 2,300km.
xena vs. pluto 2006
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Et si vous connaissiez la tete de mes accessoires piercing ... deux pitit boules de meme pas 1 mm de diametre (veridique ce sont les plus petite du marché) en metal chirurgical 4 euros ca fait cher 2 euros la boule quoi!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005
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Shreddering and treatment of cuttings of trees and hedges (up to a diametre of 7 cm) all kinds of organic refuses, compost, soil (also stony soil), feuillage, splittery materials as for example bones or wooden cases, paper, cardboard, as well as all other organic refuses.
Chapter 12 1988
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These vessels, called capillaries, which have a diametre of some thousandths of a millimetre, form, as we now know, networks whose form and density vary in different tissues.
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From the diametre of a ring, the wavelength of the mechanical wave can be determined, and to make possible the production of a ring this wavelength must be in accordance with the spacing of the planes in the system of planes to which the ring corresponds.
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Professor: _'Qu'il lui était impossible de le lui dire au juste, attendu que personne n'avait encore pu trouver d'une manière exacte le rapport de la circonférence au diametre. '
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
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He said the PD 500 rig was capable of drilling and laying up to 5.5 kilometres per stretch of pipes measuring between six and 70 inches in diametre up to a depth of a maximum of 100 metres.
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Entre ces figures sont treize fenestres de chacun costé, qui rendent un grand jour par toute l'eglise: derrière la troisième et quatrième colomne de la main droite est un tres-beau et riche base de marbre blanc de forme ronde à six pans de quelques trois pieds de diametre, qui sert de fonds baptismaux.
Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Michael Russell 1814
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With a rotor diametre of 145 metres (475 feet), the 10-megawatt protype will be roughly three times more powerful than ordinary wind turbines currently in place, Enova, a public agency owned by Norway's petroleum and oil industry ministry, said.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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