diam
noun
1.
the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference
Origin
Unadapted borrowing from Malay diam. For some Chinese speakers, this word is reanalysed as a loan from Hokkien 恬 (tiām, “silent”) or Teochew 恬 (diam⁷, “silent”).
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