Diameter vs Diana - What's the difference?
diameter | diana |
(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.
(Roman god) The daughter of Latona and Jupiter, and twin sister of Apollo; the goddess of the hunt, associated wild animals and the forest or wilderness, and an emblem of chastity; the Roman counterpart of Artemis.
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(astronomy) Short for , a main belt asteroid.
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* 1605 , Remains Concerning Britain , John Russell Smith, 1870, page 56:
* 1993 , Queens Have Died Young and Fair , P. Owen, ISBN 0720608864, page 94:
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As nouns the difference between diameter and diana
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 diana is .diameter
English
(wikipedia diameter)Alternative forms
* diametreNoun
(en noun)See also
* circumference * radiusAnagrams
* ----diana
English
(wikipedia Diana)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and all the world worshippeth.
- But succeeding ages (little regarding S. Chrysosthome's admonition to the contrary) have recalled prophane names, so as now Diana , Cassandra, Hyppolytus, Venus, Lais, names of unhappy disaster are as rife, as ever they were in paganism.
- A wholesome British name like Diana , Anne, Margaret or Elizabeth impresses a judge much more than all your vulgar Marilyns, Donnas, Madonnas and Dawns.
