I am a straight line, and I run from the centre of a circle to the circumference of a circle or sphere. Can you guess my name?

I take ten long years to get completed, and then people call me a ……??

I have the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis because I am called ……?

To hold out against something or someone OR to withstand an action or effect is to ……?

I have a strong desire to know or learn something because my name is ……?

I am a semi-circular instrument and I measure angles. Who am I?

When I begin to move more quickly and speed up OR if I increase in rate, amount or extent it would mean that I have ……?

When I feel or show anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment, it means that I am ……?

I am one of the four equal or equivalent parts into which anything is/may be divided because I am a ……?

I like to live without violence, with quiet and calm and without disturbance because I like to live ……?

A momentary or a partial view means to have a ……?