adjective
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located on or forming a diameter
diametral plane
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a less common word for diametric
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Etymology
Origin of diametral
1350–1400; Middle English < Medieval Latin diametrālis < Latin diametr ( os ) diameter + -ālis -al 1
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Supposing you wanted to know the number of teeth in a gear where the pitch diameter and the diametral pitch are given.
From Practical Mechanics for Boys by James Slough Zerbe
On the other diametral side of the coupling the strain due to the key is exerted on the top face of the key.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
The advantage of discarding the numerator is, then, that we avoid the use of fractions and are readily enabled to find any arc pitch from a given diametral pitch.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
These templates are in metal, and for epicycloidal teeth from 15 to a rack, and having a diametral pitch ranging from 11⁄2 to 32.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
By the pitch of a wheel is meant the number of teeth to the inch of circumference or diameter of the wheel; the former is called the circumferential pitch, the latter the diametral pitch.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
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