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US
/ˌsɝˈkəmfɹəns/
]
[ UK /sɜːkˈʌmfɹəns/ ]
[ UK /sɜːkˈʌmfɹəns/ ]
NOUN
- the length of the closed curve of a circle
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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 - the size of something as given by the distance around it
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
- The first column is the circumference in inches and the other three columns are fathoms, feet, and inches.
- The caustic of a circle with radiant point on the circumference is a cardioid, while if the rays are parallel then the caustic is a nephroid.
- A hailstone with a 7-inch diameter and a circumference of 18.75 inches was recently named the largest hailstone ever recovered in the United States.
- 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 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.