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in diameter
4. Phrases. in diameter.
a. literal in sense 2 (with numerals, etc.): In measurement across through the centre; in width or thickness. (Formerly also in the diameter.)
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1585 J. Dee Jrnl. in True & Faithful Relation Spirits (1659) i. 356 A trunk of fire, which..seemeth to be 4 foot over in the Diameter.
1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 60 It would magnifie but 600 times in Diameter.
1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 202 The Bay of Naples..lyes in almost a round Figure of about Thirty Miles in the Diameter.
1858 R. Hogg Veg. Kingdom 110 The fruit hangs from the tree [baobab] by a stalk two feet long and an inch in diameter.
b. Diametrically, directly (with words denoting opposition or contrariety); in direct opposition. [After Greek ἐκ διαμέτρου ἀντικεῖσθαι to lie diametrically opposite.] (Usually figurative.) Also (in lit. sense) by a diameter. Obsolete. (Cf. diametrical adj. 2a, 2b.)
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the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [adverb]
fromward?c1225
contrariouslyc1380
contrarying to1382
reversinglya1425
contrary1463
clean fro1483
repugnantly?1526
diametrally?1533
contrairly1535
in diameter1543
thwartly1558
oppositely1567
contrarily1570
contrariwise1574
diameter-wise1600
diameterly1603
reciprocallya1628
diametrically1633
counter1643
encounter1660
polarly1670
Antarcticallya1711
contrariantly1796
antithetically1816
tout au contraire1841
antistrophically1842
contrapositively1858
in reverse1869
at cross-corners with1892
1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. vi. f. 181/2 By flebothomie on the contrary syde by a diameter.
1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) iv. vii, in Wks. I. 53 To come to a publike schoole,..it was opposite (in diameter) to my humour.
1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §3 To stand in diameter and swords point with them. View more context for this quotation
1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §51 It is not worthy to stand in diameter with Heaven. View more context for this quotation
1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 76 To hinder..those deep and serious regresses of nature..is in diameter against both nature and institution.
c. in a diameter: in a direct line, directly. Obsolete. (Cf. diametrically adv. 3.)
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [adverb] > in direct line
by linec1374
evenly?c1400
lineally1426
even1489
evenliklya1500
in a diametera1681
a1681 J. Lacy Sr. Hercules Buffoon i, in Dramatic Wks. (1875) 228 Deriving our pedigree in a diameter from the best blood of Europe.
d. tactical diameter n. the perpendicular distance between a ship's original line of advance, and her position when she has turned 180° from that line, under the given angle of helm. final diameter n. the diameter of the practically circular path which a ship traverses if after turning through 180° the helm is still kept over.
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1882 W. H. White Man. Naval Archit. (ed. 2) 631 Final diameter. Tactical diameter.
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