Circumference
in example sentence
And there were a good many inches of him, too, for although he was not very tall, he was a remarkable size round, and the inches that he wanted in height, he made up in
circumference
.
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If you know the
circumference
of a circle, and you have two points on it, all you need to know is the distance between those two points, and you can extrapolate the
circumference.
We measured the
circumference
of their waist, compared to the
circumference
of their hips.
Again, we gathered objective measurements of people's physical fitness, measuring the
circumference
of their waist and the
circumference
of their hips, and we had them do a few other tests of fitness.
1,600 years before Columbus set sail, Eratosthenes not only realized the earth was round, but calculated its
circumference
and diameter within a few miles of their actual size.
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