Diameter vs Opposite - What's the difference?
diameter | opposite |
(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.
Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
Facing in the other direction.
Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
* Dryden
* John Locke
Something opposite or contrary to another.
An opponent.
An antonym.
(mathematics) An additive inverse.
In an opposite position.
Facing, or across from.
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*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street.. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.
In a complementary role to.
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As nouns the difference between diameter and opposite
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 opposite is something opposite or contrary to another.As an adjective opposite is
located directly across from something else, or from each other.As an adverb opposite is
in an opposite position.As a preposition opposite is
facing, or across from.diameter
English
(wikipedia diameter)Alternative forms
* diametreNoun
(en noun)See also
* circumference * radiusAnagrams
* ----opposite
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic)Adjective
(-)- She saw him walking on the opposite side of the road.
- They were moving in opposite directions.
- He has a lot of success with the opposite sex.
- Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pieasure opposite to that which is designed in an epic poem.
- Particles of speech have divers, and sometimes almost opposite , significations.
Derived terms
* opposite sexNoun
(en noun)- "Up" is the opposite of "down".
Derived terms
* opposites attractAdverb
(-)- I was on my seat and she stood opposite .