CIRCUMFERENCE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Circumference

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/sərkˈəmfrəns/ Listen

noun

Circumference n.

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

A circle; anything circular. "His ponderous shield... Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon."

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

verb

Circumference v. t. To include in a circular space; to bound. (Obs.)

See images of 'Circumference'

Etymology of 'Circumference'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Circumference" Quotes from Famous Books

... about 4 p.m., and although its channel could not have been less than 130 yards in breadth, there was apparently not a drop of water in it. Its bed consisted of pure sand and reeds; amid the latter, we found a small pond of 15 yards circumference, after a long search. There is a considerable dip in the country towards the river, at about two miles from it; and the intervening brush was full of kangaroo, which, I fancy, had congregated to a spot where there was abundance of food for them. ...

— Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, Complete • Charles Sturt

... beast and bird, acid and alkali, preexist in necessary Ideas in the mind of God, and are what they are by virtue of preceding affections, in the world of spirit. A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world. "Material objects," said a French philosopher, "are necessarily kinds of scoriae of the substantial thoughts of the Creator, which must always preserve an exact relation to their first origin; in other words, visible nature must ...

— Nature • Ralph Waldo Emerson

... horn by falling over a cliff when he was killed. He was brownish black, with rusty red lower legs and a whitish mane. His right horn was nine and three-quarters inches in length and five and three-quarters inches in circumference at the base and the effectiveness with which he had used his horns against the dogs demonstrated that they were by no means only for ornaments. In the next chapter the habits and relationships of the gorals and serows will be considered ...

— Camps and Trails in China - A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China • Roy Chapman Andrews and Yvette Borup Andrews

... shoes are. I have been calculating that their average heel is from an inch and a half to two inches high, and touches the ground in the circumference of a twenty-five-cent piece. As you seem to be fond of asking questions, perhaps you will like to answer one. Why do ...

— The Daughter of the Storage - And Other Things in Prose and Verse • William Dean Howells

... my best buffalo-runner and guide him myself by a short cut," said the hunter, "so that he shall still be in good time for the circumference, and—" ...

— The Thorogood Family • R.M. Ballantyne

More quotes...