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What is is a diameter?

Updated: 10/17/2024
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A diameter is:

1) a straight line passing through the center of a body from side to side.

2) the largest line from edge to edge of a circle.

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radius is half way across and diameter is all the way across

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the distance across the circle that passes the center.

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