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noun/ˈsteɪ.di.əm/
  1. 1

    A venue where sporting events are held.

    • He is going for a cricket match at the stadium.
  2. 2

    An Ancient Greek racecourse, especially, the Olympic course for foot races.

  3. 3

    Synonym of stadion, a Greek unit of length equivalent to about 185 m.historical

    • Dionysiodorus[…]sent a letter ad superos after he was dead, from the centre of the earth, to signify what distance the same centre was from the superficies of the same, viz. 42,000 stadiums […].
  4. 4

    A kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends.

  5. 5

    A graduated rod used to measure the distance of the place where it stands from an instrument having a telescope, by observing the number of the graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope.

  6. 6

    A life stage of an organism.

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