1. circumference - Noun
2. circumference - Verb
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 dictionaryNature 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