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what is the term.....diametrically opposite?

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has ..the intellectual terminology baffeld me here?.........a diameter appears to be functional only with a sphere or circle..and dosn;t seem to be a term in tri/angles or in rectangles........if i take a circle...is the diameter an extension of the center to the circumference.?....then that which woulkd be or could be opposite would be what....the contact points at the d and circumference ?...the areas above and below..? though there may not be an above nor below....unless designated on a flat plane'd surface....but the above and below could be the observers wiew and the below the table on which the paper rests.....so what is opposite.....or the opposite........could it be a radius?

......or is this a poetic attempt to alliterate?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    di·a·met·ri·cal (dº”…-mµt“r¹-k…l) also di·a·met·ric (-r¹k) --adj. 1. Of, relating to, or along a diameter. 2. Exactly opposite; contrary. --di”a·met“ri·cal·ly adv.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It means exactly or completely opposite. Strictly speaking, a thing is either opposite, or it's not, almost opposite is like almost pregnant. "Diametrically" is just used for emphasis.

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