Sentence examples for longest dimension from inspiring English sources

Roughly ellipsoidal in shape, Deimos measures about 15 km (9 miles) in its longest dimension.

Eros, which is 20 miles long in its longest dimension, was photographed by the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission in 2000.

Viruses of the family Poxviridae are about 250 to 400 nm in their longest dimension, and they are neither polygons nor filaments.

The virus particle is somewhat brick-shaped, with the longest dimension as much as 250 300 nanometres (1 nanometre = 10−9 metre).

Mean neoplasm longest dimension and volume were 8.05 cm and 210.8 cm3.

The rock - some 120km (75 miles) in its longest dimension - is the biggest asteroid yet visited by a satellite.

Taking the centroids into account, the tree pieces are spatially partitioned into two sets along the longest dimension.

Schumn (1956) defined the basin length as the longest dimension of the basin parallel to the principal drainage line.

We placed a single random transect within each stand replicate, parallel to the longest dimension of the stand.

It is the ratio between the total relief of the basin and its longest dimension parallel to the principal drainage line.

The ISR was determined by dividing the length of the patellar tendon (measured as previously stated) by the longest dimension of the patella on the lateral X-ray.