circumference
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin circumferentia, from circum (“around”) + ferō (“I carry”). Displaced native Old English ymbgang.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) enPR: sûkŭm'frəns, IPA(key): /sɜːˈkʌmfɹəns/, enPR: səkŭm'frəns, IPA(key): /səˈkʌmfɹəns/
- (US) enPR: sûrkŭm'frəns, IPA(key): /sɝːˈkʌmfɹəns/, enPR: sərkŭm'frəns, IPA(key): /sɚˈkʌmfɹəns/
- (General Australian) enPR: səkŭm'frəns, IPA(key): /səˈkamfɹəns/
- Hyphenation: cir‧cum‧fer‧ence
- Rhymes: -ʌmfɹəns
Noun
[edit]circumference (plural circumferences)
- (geometry) The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
- (geometry) The length of such a line.
- (obsolete) The surface of a round or spherical object.
- (graph theory) The length of the longest cycle of a graph.
Synonyms
[edit]- (geometry): perimeter, umstroke
- (distance measured around any object): girth
- (distance measured around a race track): lap
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional object
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length of such line
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graph theory
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Verb
[edit]circumference (third-person singular simple present circumferences, present participle circumferencing, simple past and past participle circumferenced)
- (obsolete, transitive) To include in a circular space; to bound.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- Nor is the vigour of this great body included only in itself, or circumferenced by its surface
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- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)ker- (turn)
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰer-
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 3-syllable words
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