Circumference

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  • noun. The boundary line of a circle.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The boundary line of an area or object.
  • noun. The length of such a line.
  • noun. The margin or area surrounding something.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To include in a circular or spherical space.
  • noun. The line that bounds a circle; by extension, the bounding line of any regular plane curvilinear figure; a periphery: as, the circumference of a circle or an ellipse. The circumference of a sphere is that of a great circle of the sphere.
  • noun. Hence Loosely, any bounding line: as, the circumference of a city.
  • noun. The space included in a circle; anything circular in form.
  • noun. A going about; circumlocution.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To include in a circular space; to bound.
  • noun. The line that goes round or encompasses a circular figure; a periphery.
  • noun. A circle; anything circular.
  • noun. The external surface of a sphere, or of any orbicular body.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure
  • noun. The length of such a line
  • noun. The surface of a round or spherical object
  • verb. To include in a circular space; to bound.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the boundary line encompassing an area or object
  • noun. the length of the closed curve of a circle
  • noun. the size of something as given by the distance around it
  • Word Usage
    "It follows directly from this discussion, that for our sphere-beings the circumference of a circle first increases with the radius until the “circumference of the universe” is reached, and that it thenceforward gradually decreases to zero for still further increasing values of the radius."
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    center  middle  
    cross-reference
    boundary  
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