diameter

Other forms of diameter

plural

diameters·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about diameter

What does diameter mean?

diameter means "the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in diameter?

diameter has 4 syllables: di-am-e-ter. The stress falls on "am". In IPA it is /daɪˈæmətɚ/.

What is another word for diameter?

Close synonyms include diam. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is diameter a common word?

diameter is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with diameter?

1 word rhymes with diameter. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.