Sentence examples for half the diameter from inspiring English sources

They have half the diameter of the Sun but are 1,000 times as luminous.

The rule of thumb when it comes to paella pans is that half the diameter equals approximately the number of servings.

To fall that much, the object passing in front of the star must be almost half the diameter of the star.

The lava flow created a plateau called the Tharsis dome more than 5,000 square kilometres (2,000 square miles) wide and 12km (7.5m) thick on a planet half the diameter of Earth.

The individual beams, he said, have to hit "within a few trillionths of a second" of one another if the fuel is to burn, and be pointed at the target with a precision "within half the diameter of your hair".

The Nine Chapters also provides the correct formula for the area of the circle—"multiplying half the diameter and half the circumference, one gets the area"—which Liu Hui proved.

For the past few months, astronomers have tracked an emerging second red spot on Jupiter, at left, a growing rival about one-half the diameter of the planet's trademark Great Red Spot.

After exposure of the sciatic nerve, a ligature about one-third to one-half the diameter of the sciatic nerve was made to the nerve with 7 0 silicon-treated silk suture.

The smallest planet on the previous list was about one and a half times the diameter of the Earth.

The maximum reduction of elastic modulus is less than 10% even when the size of the defect increases notably to almost half of the diameter of the segment.

A single sporangiophore (the fruiting structure) is produced from the semispherical protoplasmodium, which is approximately one and a half times the diameter of mature sporangia.