Lexic.us

Definition of Diametric

1. Adjective. Related to or along a diameter. "The diametral plane"

2. Adjective. Characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed. "Extreme and indefensible polar positions"

Definition of Diametric

1. a. Of or pertaining to a diameter.

Definition of Diametric

1. Adjective. directly opposite ¹

2. Adjective. of or relating to a diameter; diametral ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Diametric

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Diametric

diamantanes diamante diamantes diamantiferous diamantine diameter diameter at breast height diameter obliqua diameter transversa diameters

diametral diametrally diametrals diametre diametric (current term) diametrical diametrical opposition diametrically diamfenetide diamictite

diamictites diamide diamides diamidide diamidides diamidine diamidines diamidino diamido-

Literary usage of Diametric

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of Descriptive Geometry: With Applications to Isometrical Drawing by Charles William MacCord (1895)
"The Hyperbolic Paraboloid ; Its Vertex, Axis, Principal diametric Planes and Gorge Lines. The Conoid.-^—The Hyperboloid of Revolution. ..."

2. The Pericosmic Theory of Physical Existence and Its Sequel Preliminary to by George Stearns (1888)
"tive volume, the greater must be the diametric difference both of its vehicular and of its orbital motion, which constitute the proper factors of its rotary ..."

3. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia: With Figures of All the Species by Charles Darwin (1854)
"... excepting in old worn-down specimens, increases largely by diametric growth : during the diametric growth, the outer scales must he laterally separated ..."

4. The Dynamo: Its Theory, Design, and Manufacture by Charles Caesar Hawkins (1896)
"Having decided on which side of the diametric line passing through the first inductor the loop is to be completed, ie whether by inductor 10 or inductor 8, ..."

5. Submarine Mines and Torpedoes: As Applied to Harbour Defence by John Townsend Bucknill (1889)
""Again, the proposition that the resistance to a cylinder moving at right angles to its axis, is half the pressure there would be on the diametric plane, ..."

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