Skip to main content
EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

circumference

/ser-kuhm-fer-uhns/US // sərˈkʌm fər əns //UK // (səˈkʌmfərəns) //

周长,圆周率,周率,方圆

Related Words

girth腰围,周长,围度,颈围ambit氛围,氛围的影响outline纲要,概要,纲举目张,概述extremity四肢,四肢肢体,四肢发达,四端margin边缘,边缘化,边际,边缘地带fringe边缘地带,边缘人,边缘化,边缘confines框框,边界,框内,狭窄的空间rim边缘,镶边,边缘地带,边缘地区lip嘴唇,唇部,唇,唇语periphery周边,外围,边缘,边缘地区circuit电路,回路,回环,回回路路compass指南针,罗盘,指北针,罗经boundary边界,界线,界限,边境border边界,边境,边缘,边境地区verge边缘,边缘化,边缘地带,边缘地区limits边界,边界线bounds边界,捆绑,边境,障碍物

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the outer boundary, especially of a circular area; perimeter: the circumference of a circle.
    • : the length of such a boundary: a one-mile circumference.
    • : the area within a bounding line: the vast circumference of his mind.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounedge, perimeter
Synonyms
girth腰围,周长,围度,颈围ambit氛围,氛围的影响border边界,边境,边缘,边境地区boundary边界,界线,界限,边境circuit电路,回路,回环,回回路路compass指南针,罗盘,指北针,罗经confines框框,边界,框内,狭窄的空间extremity四肢,四肢肢体,四肢发达,四端fringe边缘地带,边缘人,边缘化,边缘limits边界,边界线lip嘴唇,唇部,唇,唇语margin边缘,边缘化,边际,边缘地带outline纲要,概要,纲举目张,概述periphery周边,外围,边缘,边缘地区rim边缘,镶边,边缘地带,边缘地区verge边缘,边缘化,边缘地带,边缘地区

Examples

  • This hat will grow with your kids, suiting a circumference size of 7 to 12 inches.

  • Instead, in addition to looking at waist circumference, your health-care provider will note clinical markers indicative of visceral adiposity, Jay says.

  • Effective range is the distance at which you can reliably place a shot within a circle that matches the size of the vital organs of an animal—about the circumference of a paper plate for a deer or an elk.

  • Each band comes with two different lengths for the longer side to fit wrists between 5 and 8 inches in circumference.

  • For landscape shots, set your camera on screen mode so you aren’t blinded by the viewfinder, and shoot directly into the sun and around its circumference.

  • The rest that extends beyond the circumference of the meat quickly melts down onto the surface of the flattop.

  • Pi is officially defined as the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.

  • The course is about a mile and a half in circumference, and the "straight" about five furlongs in length.

  • Their branches describe a circle of more than eighty feet in circumference, but they no longer bear fruit.

  • The rock towers to a height of two hundred and fifty feet and is about a mile in circumference.

  • Its circumference is not very considerable, but nearly the same all the way up, which gives it the look of a tower.

  • On the circumference of the barrel are gear teeth, and those teeth engage corresponding teeth on the arbor of the center.

Level 2Browse all words →