semicircle

[ UK /sˈɛmɪsˌɜːkə‍l/ ]
NOUN
  1. a plane figure with the shape of half a circle
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How To Use semicircle In A Sentence

  • I'm sat in one of those chairs with a little side table to rest your notebook on, arranged in a semicircle in a darkened room.
  • It is two unequal semicircles (with diameters AB and BC) stuck together along their diameters.
  • Without thinking about it Clara, Tennyson, Cane and Brian had arranged themselves in a semicircle around Nicholas.
  • I was eating my regular lunch at my regular table when Vena came sauntering over, her flunkies creating a semicircle behind her.
  • Then where you will haue your rime or concord to fall, marke it with a compast stroke or semicircle passing ouer those lines, be they farre or neare in distance, as ye haue seene before described. The Arte of English Poesie
  • The half of a circle is termed a semicircle; thus, in Figure 52, A B and Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught
  • The solution, a semicircle whose diameter is on the given line, is obtained by reflecting the curve in the line and invoking the isoperimetric property of the circle.
  • The village was formed of semicircle huts.
  • We must have traveled in a big semicircle, eventually turning back toward our starting point. PREY
  • The porch is a semicircle of giant Ionic columns running the full height of the house.
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