Local English word record

diametrically

adverb · 1 sense

as from opposite ends of a diameter

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Examples

  • when two honest witnesses give accounts of the same event that differ diametrically, how can anyone prove that the evidence you gave was deliberately false?
  • three of these brushes were approximately 120 feet apart and the fourth diametrically opposite to one of the three

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