different between diameter vs caliber

English

Alternative forms

• diametre
• ? (abbreviation)

Etymology

From Old French diametre (French diamètre), from Latin diametrus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diámetros) (?????? (gramm?)) (diametros gramm?, “line measuring across”), from ??? (diá, “across”) + ?????? (métron, “measure”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /da??æm?t?(?)/
• (General American) enPR: d?-?m'?t?r, IPA^(key): /da??æm?t?/, [-m???]

Noun

diameter (plural diameters)

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

Related terms

• diametric
• diametrically
• semidiameter

Translations

See also

• circumference
• radius

Anagrams

• Demetria, diametre, diatreme

Danish

Noun

diameter c (singular definite diameteren, plural indefinite diametre)

1. a diameter

References

• “diameter” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French diamètre, from Latin diametrus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diámetros). Equivalent to dia- +? meter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?di.a??me?.t?r/
• Hyphenation: di?a?me?ter

Noun

diameter m (plural diameters, diminutive diametertje n)

1. diameter (length of diametrical chord)
2. diameter (diametrical chord)

   Synonym: middellijn

See also

• straal
• omtrek
• doorsnee

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

diameter m (definite singular diameteren, indefinite plural diametere or diametre or diametrer, definite plural diameterne or diametrene)

1. a diameter

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

diameter m (definite singular diameteren, indefinite plural diameterar or diametrar, definite plural diameterane or diametrane)

1. a diameter

Swedish

Noun

diameter c

1. (geometry) diameter

Declension

Anagrams

• meditera

English

Alternative forms

• calibre (more common form in UK etc)

Etymology

From French calibre (“bore of a gun, size, capacity (literally, and figuratively), also weight”), from Italian calibro.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæl.?.b?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kæl.?.b?/
• Hyphenation: cal?i?bre

Noun

caliber (countable and uncountable, plural calibers) (British spelling, Australia, Canada, New Zealand)

1. Diameter of the bore of a firearm, typically measured between opposite lands.
2. The diameter of round or cylindrical body, as of a bullet, a projectile, or a column.
3. A nominal name for a cartridge type, which may not exactly indicate its true size and may include other measurements such as cartridge length or black powder capacity. Eg 7.62×39 or 38.40.
4. Unit of measure used to express the length of the bore of a weapon. The number of calibres is determined by dividing the length of the bore of the weapon, from the breech face of the tube to the muzzle, by the diameter of its bore. A gun tube the bore of which is 40 feet (480 inches) long and 12 inches in diameter is said to be 40 calibers long.
5. (figuratively) Relative size, importance, magnitude.
6. (figuratively) Capacity or compass of mind.

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7. (dated) Degree of importance or station in society.

Related terms

• calibrate
• calibration
• calipers

Translations

References

• caliber in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• caliber in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

References

The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., Clarendon Press, 1989.

Anagrams

• calibre