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Tore :: Tore (n.) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.

Zoetrope :: Zoetrope (n.) An optical toy, in which figures made to revolve on the inside of a cylinder, and viewed through slits in its circumference, appear like a single figure passing through a series of natural motions as if animated or mechanically moved..

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..

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..

Acropetal :: Acropetal (a.) Developing from below towards the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of certain inflorescence..

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

Quadrant :: Quadrant (n.) The quarter of a circle, or of the circumference of a circle, an arc of 90¡, or one subtending a right angle at the center..

Girdle :: Girdle (n.) The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant..

Epicycloid :: Epicycloid (n.) A curve traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the convex side of a fixed circle.

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

Grist :: Grist (n.) In rope making, a given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands..

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..

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

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..

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..

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..

Top :: Top (n.) The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface..

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..

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

Tun-great :: Tun-great (a.) Having the circumference of a tun.

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