DIAMETRICALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diametrically mean? 

• DIAMETRICALLY (adverb)
  The adverb DIAMETRICALLY has 1 sense:

1. as from opposite ends of a diameter

  Familiarity information: DIAMETRICALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIAMETRICALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

As from opposite ends of a diameter

Context example:

three of these brushes were approximately 120 feet apart and the fourth diametrically opposite to one of the three

Pertainym:

diametric (characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed)

 Context examples 

These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Then he remembered the underwriters and the owners, the two masters a captain must serve, either of which could and would break him and whose interests were diametrically opposed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Now it had been her custom to launch out into fervent admiration of what she called my 'beaute male:' wherein she differed diametrically from you, who told me point-blank, at the second interview, that you did not think me handsome.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)