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Words related to perimeter
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beltway
A beltway is a road that goes around a city or town, to keep traffic away from the centre. -
bulwark
A bulwark against something protects you against it. A bulwark of something protects it. -
dust ruffle
a ruffle attached to the inside hem of a full-length petticoat or skirt to protect the bottom edge of the garment against dirt and wear, popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries. -
error of closure
the amount by which a computed, plotted, or observed quantity or position differs from the true or established one, esp when plotting a closed traverse -
fractal
a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions. -
hero's formula
the formula for the area of a triangle when the sides are given: for a triangle with sides a, b, and c, the area is equal to , where s is equal to one half the perimeter of the triangle.