Sentences with circumference
cir·cum·fer·ence
C c - ...a scientist calculating the Earth's circumference.
- Cut the salmon into long strips and wrap it round the circumference of the bread. [+ of]
- Then I see the fitness consultant, Amie Higgs, who measures my height and the circumference of my chest, waist, hips and thighs.
- Professor Dixon uses the BMI with a waist circumference test.
- The circumference of a circle.
- A one-mile circumference.
- She recorded their weight, the circumference of their heads.
- Findings and suggested chairborne time may have a stronger influence on waist circumference than moderate-to-vigorous physical activity.
- The vast circumference of his mind.
- The collider consists of two concentric underground rings, 27kilometres in circumference spanning the border between France and Switzerland.
- Circumference refers to the line bounding a circle or any approximately circular or elliptical area; , perimeter extends the meaning to a line bounding any area, as a triangle, square, or polygon; , periphery, in its literal sense identical with , perimeter, is more frequently used of the edge of a physical object or in an extended metaphoric sense [the periphery of understanding]; circuit now usually refers to a traveling around a periphery [the moon's circuit of the earth]; compass refers literally to an area within specific limits but is often used figuratively [the compass of the city, the compass of freedom]