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| pushball |
a game in which two teams each try to push a large heavy ball, about six feet in diameter, across the other's goal. [1/2 definitions] |
| radius |
the length of a radius line segment; one half of the diameter. [1/7 definitions] |
| Saturn |
the second largest planet in the solar system and sixth from the sun, having many satellites, a diameter of about 74,500 miles, and a system of icy rings around its equator. [1/2 definitions] |
| supergiant |
a star at least one hundred times the diameter of the sun and very much brighter, such as Betelgeuse. |
| Uranus |
the third largest planet in the solar system and seventh from the sun, having twenty-seven satellites and a diameter of about 31,500 miles. [1/2 definitions] |
| Venus |
the brightest and sixth largest planet in the solar system and second from the sun, having a diameter of about 7,500 miles and a dense, cloudy atmosphere. [1/2 definitions] |
| windage |
the difference in a firearm between the diameter of the projectile fired and that of the bore of the firearm. [1/3 definitions] |
| wire gauge |
a gauge calibrated for determining the diameter of wire or thickness of sheet metal. |
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