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  2. List of islands by area - Wikipedia

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    This list includes all islands in the world larger than 1,000 km 2 (390 sq mi). For size and location reference, the four continental landmasses are also shown. Continental landmasses Continental landmasses are not usually classified as islands despite being completely surrounded by water. [Note 1] However, because the definition of continent varies between geographers, the Americas are ...

  3. Diameter - Wikipedia

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    In this context, a diameter is any chord which passes through the conic's centre. A diameter of an ellipse is any line passing through the centre of the ellipse. [7] Half of any such diameter may be called a semidiameter, although this term is most often a synonym for the radius of a circle or sphere. [8] The longest diameter is called the ...

  4. List of dimensionless quantities - Wikipedia

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    optics, photography (ratio of focal length to diameter of aperture) Fresnel number: F = Augustin-Jean Fresnel: optics (slit diffraction) [6] Refractive index: n = electromagnetism, optics (speed of light in vacuum over speed of light in a material) Transmittance: T

  5. Measurement of a Circle - Wikipedia

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    The ratio of the circumference of any circle to its diameter is greater than but less than . This approximates what we now call the mathematical constant π . He found these bounds on the value of π by inscribing and circumscribing a circle with two similar 96-sided regular polygons .

  6. Hydraulic diameter - Wikipedia

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    The hydraulic diameter, D H, is a commonly used term when handling flow in non-circular tubes and channels. Using this term, one can calculate many things in the same way as for a round tube. Using this term, one can calculate many things in the same way as for a round tube.

  7. Diameter (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Diameter (group theory), the maximum diameter of a Cayley graph of the group; Equivalent diameter, the diameter of a circle or sphere with the same area, perimeter, or volume as another object; Hydraulic diameter, the equivalent diameter of a tube or channel for fluids; Kinetic diameter, a measure of particles in a gas related to the mean free path

  8. Paraboloid - Wikipedia

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    The diameter of the dish, measured along the surface, is then given by + ⁡ (+), where ln x means the natural logarithm of x, i.e. its logarithm to base e. The volume of the dish, the amount of liquid it could hold if the rim were horizontal and the vertex at the bottom (e.g. the capacity of a paraboloidal wok ), is given by π 2 R 2 D ...

  9. Chronology of computation of π - Wikipedia

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    The Moon is handed down by memory to be eleven thousand yojanas in diameter. Its peripheral circle happens to be thirty three thousand yojanas when calculated.... The Sun is eight thousand yojanas and another two thousand yojanas in diameter. From that its peripheral circle comes to be equal to thirty thousand yojanas...." 3: 0 c. 250 BC ...