Definitionn. the size of something as given by the distance around it
Last update: January 10, 2017
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I did not know the circumference of the earth. [adjective]
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The rectus sheath or external oblique aponeurosis was clearly exposed around the circumference of the defect. [noun]
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She asserted her rights even over her son, though he was the centre of a web whose threads reached to the furthest circumference of the known world. [noun]
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She is her own centre and circumference, like her mother. [noun]
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A circle of a few hundred feet in circumference was drawn, and each of the party took a segment for his portion. [noun]
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These points established, let us suppose a community of one thousand families, enclosed in a territory of a given circumference, and deprived of foreign intercourse. [noun]
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It was more than forty miles in circumference, and its walls enclosed buildings surpassing in size and grandeur even the Pyramids and the temples of Thebes. [noun]
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Oliver Twist's ninth birthday found him a pale thin child, somewhat diminutive in stature, and decidedly small in circumference. [noun]
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The flattened portion, which was about the size in circumference of two open hands, was bored with a small auger in numerous places. [noun]
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In circumference, with a maximum length of 292 ft. [noun]
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They are not large, any of these islands; sixty or seventy miles is the greatest circumference. [Please select]
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