As the semidiameter was only 28 inches, this large tree could have been but 168 years old. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
Each of the laminae can be seen to be composed of two, three, or four layers of ligneous tubes; but supposing each ring the growth of one year, and the semidiameter of a mowana of one hundred feet in circumference about seventeen feet, if the central point were in the centre of the tree, then its age would lack some centuries of being as old as the. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
Each semicircular niche was about a foot in its semidiameter. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference
The parts, D and F, will be likewise elevated to H and K, whose refraction, by reason of its inclination, will be bigger then that of the point C, though less then that of E; therefore will the semidiameter IL, be shorter then LG, and consequently the under side of the appearing Sun more flat then the upper. From Wordnik.com. [Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon] Reference
Thus let be the horizontal parallel, and p the apparent semidiameter — —”. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Moon] Reference
Horizontal semidiameter of the ©. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
Apparent semidiameter of the C — inflection. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
O's semidiameter. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
Moon's semidiameter corrected. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
3. semidiameter. From Wordnik.com. [Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois] Reference
3's semidiameter and augmentation. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
Ra-di-us, the semidiameter v. Rar-e-fy, to make thin. From Wordnik.com. [The Scholar's Spelling Assistant; Wherein the Words Are Arranged on an Improved Plan, According to Their Respective Principles of Accentuation. In a Manner Calculated to Familiarize the Art of Spelling and Pronunciation, to Remove Difficulties, and to Facilitate General Improvement Intended for the Use of Schools and Private Tuition] Reference
Aim.), true latitude, North, - true distance from nonagesimal, (East), equatorial horizontal parallax, horizontal parallax, reduced, (320 to 319) parallax in longitude, apparent distance from nonagesimal, (East), parallax in latitude, -- apparent latitude, North, augmented semidiameter, arising from apparent altitude, inflexion of light semidiameter, corrected. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
That a circle of ground of thirty-five miles semidiameter will bear corn, garden-stuff, fruits, hay, and timber, for the 4,690,000 inhabitants of the said city and circle, so as nothing of that kind need be brought from above thirty-five miles distance from the said city; for the number of acres within the said circle, reckoning two acres sufficient to furnish bread and drink - corn for every head, and two acres will furnish hay for every necessary horse; and that the trees which may grow in the hedgerows of the fields within the said circle may furnish timber for 600,000 houses. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic] Reference
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