Citations:diametre

Noun: alternative form of diameter

 * 1654, John Webster, Academiarum Examen, page #49:
 * for of diverſe Orbs moved about in the ſame ſpace of time, the leaſt moves the moſt ſlowly, and the greateſt moſt ſwiftly, for if it be computed according to the leaſt Diametre given unto it, and how it moves more ſwiftly than the Orb of the Moon, by ſo many times as it exceeds the greatneſs of its Circumference, it will be paſt all humane ſense,
 * 1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis, § V., Chapter IV., page #122:
 * Before I had peruſed theſe, I had drawn up a Deſcription of my own, which I will take leave to ſubjoyn. It is above a foot Diametre. The Mouth, in the middle, is divided into five Lips. The figurative both of this and of the Trunk or Body is pentangular. The Diametre of the Trunk almoſt three inches.
 * 1687, De Thevenot, The Travels Of Monsieur De Thevenot Into The Levant, Volume II., Part II., page #129:
 * They drink no water there, but out of a Ciſtern near the Kervanſeray, which is three or four Fathom in Diametre, and covered by a Dome with ſix Doors ; this place is three long Agatſch from Momzir, and is the laſt of the Government of Schiras, after which we enter into that of Lar.
 * 1808, Richard Payne Knight, An Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste, page #37:
 * A parallax in astronomy is the difference between the relative situation of any heavenly body, as it is seen from the surface, and as it would be seen from the centre of the earth : which difference, being ascertained by an angle, the base of which is half the earth’s diametre, affords evidence of the real magnitude and distance of the body, to which the perpendicular of that angle extends.