Hypertext Webster Gateway: "perimeter"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Perimeter \Per*im"e*ter\, n. [Gr. ?; ? around + ? measure: cf.
F. p['e]rim[`e]tre.]
1. (Geom.) The outer boundary of a body or figure, or the sum
of all the sides.
2. An instrument for determining the extent and shape of the
field of vision.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
perimeter
n 1: the boundary line or the area immediately inside the
boundary [syn: {margin}, {border}]
2: a line enclosing a plane areas
3: the size of something as given by the distance around it
[syn: {circumference}]
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