These would often flatten upon impact with the target, causing a larger wound than the original diameter of the ball.

The charged droplet hits the sample, spreads over a diameter greater than its original diameter, dissolves the protein and rebounces.

Predilation is accomplished by threading the lesion with an ordinary balloon catheter and expanding it to the vessel's original diameter.

The third stage was a stretched S-IVB stage, which retained its original diameter and engine.

Typically these boats were widened beyond the original diameter of the log by the spreading of the steam-softened sides.

These aging stars have expanded to many times their original diameters and cooled.

Despite the considerable erosion, it was possible to estimate the original diameter to have been 2.7 to 3 km, assuming the impact hypothesis is correct.

The transition between this ground diameter and the original diameter is either straight, to form a counterbore, or angled, to form a countersink.

The volcano's original diameter is thought to have been about 12-15 kilometers, and probably formed by a single vent.

The original diameter in inches of the 45rpm format gramophone record.