circumference

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[ US /ˌsɝˈkəmfɹəns/ ]
[ UK /sɜːkˈʌmfɹəns/ ]
NOUN
  1. the length of the closed curve of a circle
  2. the boundary line encompassing an area or object
    he had walked the full circumference of his land
    a danger to all races over the whole circumference of the globe
  3. the size of something as given by the distance around it
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How To Use circumference In A Sentence

  • This means the circumference is about 1000 meters, so v is 1000 meters per minute, which yields a simulated gravity about 1/6 of Earth's -- the same as the moon (though the people inside move as though the gravity is Earth-normal). 8/1/08: Launch Pad, day 2
  • But with vast quantities of developable land in the expanding suburbs (as the circumference of the circle enlarges), regional home price indices post only small gains.
  • The sumpitan is a piece of hard wood, from six to eight feet in length and in circumference slightly larger than the handle of a broom. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China
  • Recall that given a circle of radius r, the circumference is 2pr.
  • The first column is the circumference in inches and the other three columns are fathoms, feet, and inches.
  • The angle at the centre of a circle is twice the angle at the circumference from the same chord.
  • We can picture all these dualities as points on the circumference of a circle.
  • In children, cuff bladder width should be at least 40 percent of the arm circumference halfway between the olecranon and acromion; the cuff should then cover 80 percent or more of the arm circumference.
  • The eggs of the leipoa, or native pheasant, are found in singular – looking mounds of sand, thrown up by the bird in the midst of the scrubs, and often measuring several yards in circumference. An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans, by Edward John Eyre
  • Large Hadron collider is 27 Km in circumference and will accelerates protons to 99. 99999% the speed of light (I might not have gotten the right number of 9s, sorry if this spoils your calculations if you are trying this at home). Boing Boing
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