Diameter and Scale

Diameter

Diameter noun - The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.

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Scale and diameter are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Scale" instead a noun "Diameter".

Nearby Words: diametric, diametral

Scale noun - A device for measuring weight.

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Diameter and scale are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Diameter" instead a noun "Scale".

Nearby Words: scaled, scaling, scalable

low	low diameter	low scale
actual	actual diameter	actual scale
entire	entire diameter	entire scale
large	large diameter	large scale
Other adjectives: greater, larger, smaller, overall.

And we needn't get into the relative scale of the destoyers vs the planets, which would suggest the planet has an atmosphere about a few meters high and a diameter of less than a kilometer.

Source: Video Game / Sword of the Stars
And at Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann's scale (34 billion light years, according to the creators), not only should galaxies not even be visible, but it's about a third the diameter of the observable universe.

Source: Sci Fi Writers Have / No Sense of Mass
Scifi Writers Have No Sense Of Scale: Planets are tiny; maybe 20km in diameter, and the distance between them is fairly small, in planetary terms.

Source: Video Game / Evochron

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