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Diameter vs Ovality - What's the difference?

diameter | ovality |

As nouns the difference between diameter and ovality

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 ovality is (engineering) a measurement of deviation from circularity of an oval or approximately elliptical shape.

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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    ovality

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia ovality) (ovalities)
  • (engineering) a measurement of deviation from circularity of an oval or approximately elliptical shape.

    • See also

    * eccentricity