Hypertext Webster Gateway: "circumference"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Circumference \Cir*cum"fer*ence\, v. t.
To include in a circular space; to bound. [Obs.] --Sir T.
Browne.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Circumference \Cir*cum"fer*ence\, n. [L. circumferentia.]
1. The line that goes round or encompasses a circular figure;
a periphery. --Millon.

2. A circle; anything circular.

His ponderous shield . . . Behind him cast. The
broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the
moon. --Milton.

3. The external surface of a sphere, or of any orbicular
body.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

circumference
n 1: the size of something as given by the distance around it
[syn: {perimeter}]
2: the length of the closed curve of a circle


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