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Diameter vs Caliber - What's the difference?

diameter | caliber |

As nouns the difference between diameter and caliber

is that diameter is (geometry) any straight line between two points on the circumference of a circle that passes through the centre/center of the circle while caliber is .

diameter

English

(wikipedia diameter)

Alternative forms

* diametre

Noun

(en noun)
  • (geometry) Any straight line between two points on the circumference of a circle that passes through the centre/center of the circle.
  • (geometry) The length of such a line.
  • (geometry) The maximum distance between any two points in a metric space
  • (graph theory) The maximum eccentricity over all vertices in a graph.

    • Related terms

    * diametric * diametrically * semidiameter

    See also

    * circumference * radius

    Anagrams

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    caliber

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Related terms

    * calibrate

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