Definition of circumference

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Circumference (n.) A circle; anything circular.

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Circumferential :: Circumferential (a.) Pertaining to the circumference; encompassing; encircling; circuitous.
Circumference :: Circumference (n.) The line that goes round or encompasses a circular figure; a periphery.
Verge :: Verge (n.) A circumference; a circle; a ring.
Semidiameter :: Semidiameter (n.) Half of a diameter; a right line, or the length of a right line, drawn from the center of a circle, a sphere, or other curved figure, to its circumference or periphery; a radius..
Degree :: Degree (n.) A 360th part of the circumference of a circle, which part is taken as the principal unit of measure for arcs and angles. The degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds..
Circle :: Circle (n.) A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center..
Girdle :: Girdle (n.) That which girds, encircles, or incloses; a circumference; a belt; esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus..
Circle :: Circle (n.) The line that bounds such a figure; a circumference; a ring.
Circumference :: Circumference (n.) The external surface of a sphere, or of any orbicular body..
Semicircle :: Semicircle (n.) A semicircumference.
Center :: Center (n.) A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place..
Breasting :: Breasting (n.) The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circumference, and prevents the escape of the water until it has spent its force upon the wheel. See Breast wheel..
Semi Circumference :: Semi circumference (n.) Half of a circumference.
Cablet :: Cablet (n.) A little cable less than ten inches in circumference.
Hypocycloid :: Hypocycloid (n.) A curve traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the concave side in the fixed circle. Cf. Epicycloid, and Trochoid..
Circumference :: Circumference (v. t.) To include in a circular space; to bound.
Circuit :: Circuit (n.) The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area..
Semicircle :: Semicircle (n.) A body in the form of half of a circle, or half of a circumference..
Ring :: Ring (n.) The plane figure included between the circumferences of two concentric circles.
Brush Wheel :: Brush wheel () A wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brushlike or soft attached to the circumference..
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