Definition of circumference
Nouns
the size of something as given by the distance around it
- Synonyms:
- perimeter
- Types:
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girth
the distance around a person's body
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spread
the expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age)
- Type of:
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size
the physical magnitude of something (how big it is)
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"
- Synonyms:
- circuit
- Type of:
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border, borderline, boundary line, delimitation, mete
a line that indicates a boundary
the length of the closed curve of a circle
- Type of:
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length
the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in place
Vocabulary Lists for circumference
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels - Chapters 1-4 »(415 words)
A very interesting vocabulary list from Gulliver's...
- scimitar
- lilliputian
- observe
- middle finger
- metropolis
- cadmium
- caduceus
- cairn
- caliper
- calligraphy
- acute angle
- addend
- addition
- angle
- area
Spelling and Vocabulary Unit 11 »(34 words)
Many of these words have the Latin bases: plic, tract,...
- abstract
- complicate
- persist
- attractive
- strict
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