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Dimension :: Dimension (n.) Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the plural, measure in length and breadth, or in length, breadth, and thickness; extent; size; as, the dimensions of a room, or of a ship; the dimensions of a farm, of a kingdom..

Circumference :: Circumference (n.) A circle; anything circular.

Semicircle :: Semicircle (n.) The half of a circle; the part of a circle bounded by its diameter and half of its circumference.

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..

Thimble :: Thimble (n.) A ring of thin metal formed with a grooved circumference so as to fit within an eye-spice, or the like, and protect it from chafing..

Circumference :: Circumference (n.) The external surface of a sphere, or of any orbicular body..

Noria :: Noria (n.) A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which water is raised and discharged into a trough; used in Arabia, China, and elsewhere for irrigating land; a Persian wheel..

Semicircle :: Semicircle (n.) A body in the form of half of a circle, or half of a circumference..

Isoperimetrical :: Isoperimetrical (a.) Having equal perimeters of circumferences; as, isoperimetrical figures or bodies..

Function :: Function (n.) A quantity so connected with another quantity, that if any alteration be made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in the former. Each quantity is said to be a function of the other. Thus, the circumference of a circle is a function of the diameter. If x be a symbol to which different numerical values can be assigned, such expressions as x2, 3x, Log. x, and Sin. x, are all functions of x..

Circumferential :: Circumferential (a.) Pertaining to the circumference; encompassing; encircling; circuitous.

Round :: Round (adv.) In circumference; as, a ball is ten inches round..

Verge :: Verge (n.) A circumference; a circle; a ring.

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..

Incommensurable :: Incommensurable (a.) Not commensurable; having no common measure or standard of comparison; as, quantities are incommensurable when no third quantity can be found that is an aliquot part of both; the side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each other; the diameter and circumference of a circle are incommensurable..

Ring :: Ring (n.) The plane figure included between the circumferences of two concentric circles.

Circumference :: Circumference (v. t.) To include in a circular space; to bound.

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..

Round :: Round (a.) Having every portion of the surface or of the circumference equally distant from the center; spherical; circular; having a form approaching a spherical or a circular shape; orbicular; globular; as, a round ball..

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