1 a straight line going from one side of a circle or any other round object to the other side, passing through the centre
compareRADIUS:
the diameter of a tree trunk * The dome is 42.3 metres in diameter.
2 (technical) a measurement of the power of an instrument to MAGNIFY sth:
a lens magnifying 300 diameters (= making sth look 300 times larger than it really is).
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