Each cable is about 3-feet in diameter, and within the cables are thin strings of wire that actually make up the cable themselves.
Quotes about diameter (16 Quotes)
The tree was two feet in diameter and part of the roots were uprooted, it was such a significant impact,
Now, therefore, the Directors of the company are hereby ordered to see that precautions are taken to make travel on said railroad perfectly safe by using a screw with at least twenty-four inches diameter.
Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. What if they decided to improve scoring in the NBA and made the hoop 4 inches bigger in diameter You don't want to artificially improve scoring. What if the NBA developed a half-court shot that was worth 5 points You can't do things like that.
It looks exactly like an underwater bombing range. There are craters anywhere from 20 feet to 40 feet in diameter and 5 to 15 feet deep.
The exhaust from gas furnaces can be run through an exhaust flue that can be as narrow as eight inches in diameter.
It was wild looking. It wasn't as big as a tarantula, but it was a good 2 inches in diameter.
We are prone to magnify weaknesses and to imagine vices in others that do not exist. We chew the cud of slander with satisfaction slander, 'whose whisper over the worlds diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports his poisoned shot.' Talk about battles yet to be fought Backbiting and evil speaking head the list.
Many of their lodges remained as perfect as when occupied. They were made of poles two or three inches in diameter, set up in circular form, and covered with cedar bark.
Last Sunday, after seven years in space traveling nearly three billion miles, Stardust landed in the Great Salt Lake Desert with a treasure from when the solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago. We should have more than one million particles larger than one micron in diameter.
Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894.
The Alvin has a very small window to look out of, about four inches in diameter. You get a very narrow view of what's down there.
The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought not by the rising and setting of the sun.
It would have taken only a second or two for a meteor that's 20 kilometers in diameter to pass through the ocean and impact the rock beneath.
On the main drag, painters and drawers will be found, but exotic wood sculptors will also pull in a crowd. I take exotic woods and make funky furniture, ... One of my favorite pieces I'm showing this year is a ying-yang curio that's four-feet in diameter. The doors are in that (ying-yang) shape and there are two shelves that seem like they're floating and are the dots.
There is a new way with very very tiny fiber optics, which give an enormous high resolution. There are many many thousand fibers, very very close together with a very small diameter.