circumference

Speech parts

1. circumference - Noun

2. circumference - Verb

Meaning

The line that goes round or encompasses a circular figure; a periphery.

A circle; anything circular.

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

To include in a circular space; to bound.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

perimeter circuit rim periphery girth marge rand halo around outside band compass cortex selvage round
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Antonyms

kern center centrum attar mecca oculus
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Hypernyms

size length mete border delimitation borderline

Hyponyms

girth

Phrases with the word

cephalic circumference head circumference half of a circumference along the circumference Schwarzschild circumference cranial circumference

Examples

Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. Blaise Pascal

We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism. Laura Riding

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere. Voltaire

The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The iron arc of the avoiding journey Curves back upon my weakness at the end; Whether the faint light spark against my face Or in the dark my sight hide from my sight, Centre and circumference are both my weakness. Stephen Spender

My words like eyes that flinch from light, refuse And shut upon obscurity; my acts Cast to their opposites by impatient violence Break up the sequent path; they fly On a circumference to avoid the centre. Stephen Spender

Close letter words and terms

circumesophageal circumeter circumfer circumferenceless circumferent circumferential