perimeter

Noun

Meaning

The outer boundary of a body or figure, or the sum of all the sides.

An instrument for determining the extent and shape of the field of vision.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

circumference border edge boundary margin outline limits outer edge marge rand frontier area around line end
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Antonyms

kern midland center keystone centrum mecca
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Hypernyms

line size edge bound boundary

Hyponyms

lip girth

Phrases with the word

northern perimeter around the perimeter southern perimeter safety perimeter

Anagrams

peritreme

Examples

The fuel on which science runs is ignorance. Science is like a hungry furnace that must be fed logs from the forests of ignorance that surround us. In the process, the clearing we call knowledge expands, but the more it expands, the longer its perimeter and the more ignorance comes into view. Matt Ridley

As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness. Albert Einstein

Out here on the perimeter there are no stars. Out here we is stoned. Immaculate. Jim Morrison

We need to put undercover security armed people at the curbside of the terminal with the uniform of policemen. We need to protect the terminal. We need to protect the security checkpoint, the gate, the aircraft, the perimeter. Isaac Yeffet

You can't write an image, a metaphor, a story, a phrase, without leaning a little further into the shared world, without recognizing that your supposed solitude is at every point of its perimeter touching some other. Jane Hirshfield

Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house. Bjarke Ingels

Close letter words and terms

perimenstruation perimesencephalic perimetazine perimeter check perimeter fence perimeterless