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Circumference in sentence

43 examples of Circumference in a sentence

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.
And the circumference of this building is 183 meters.
But to get the circumference, you'd need measuring tape or a piece of string, unless there was a better way.
Now, it's obvious that a circle's circumference would get smaller or larger along with its diameter, but the relationship goes further than that.
In fact, the ratio between the two, the circumference divided by the diameter, will always be the same number, no matter how big or small the circle gets.
You see, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter is what's known as an irrational number, one that can never be expressed as a ratio of two whole numbers.
That involves a constellation of symptoms, including high blood sugar, increased waist circumference, and high blood pressure.
While BMI can be a helpful estimate of healthy weight, actual body fat percentage can only really be determined by also considering information like waist circumference and muscle mass.
It's 27 kilometers in circumference.
Over time, the united city has morphed into a city center with ghettos along its circumference.
That's two-and-a-half times the Earth's circumference, inside you.
Now, sometimes, in animation, females are so thin that their waist size approximates the circumference of their upper arm.
When placed close to a silicon wire, a ring siphons off and temporarily stores only certain waves of light— those whose periodic wavelength fits a whole number of times along the ring’s circumference.
In 1897, the House of Representatives in the US state of Indiana unanimously passed legislation that redefined the calculation of the value of pi , the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.
And, though age, sex, ethnicity, waist circumference, physical activity, smoking, and alcohol consumption all correlate with metabolic phenotypes, the BMI is unable to distinguish between the two groups.
We Don’t Need a Bigger Particle ColliderFRANKFURT – Between Lake Geneva and the Swiss Jura, more than 100 meters (328 feet) below the surface, lies a circular tunnel, 27 kilometers (17 miles) in circumference, containing superconducting magnets that accelerate protons almost to the speed of light.
It was located between latitude 5 degrees 55' and 9 degrees 49' north, and between longitude 79 degrees 42' and 82 degrees 4' east of the meridian of Greenwich; its length is 275 miles; its maximum width, 150 miles; its circumference, 900 miles; its surface area, 24,448 square miles, in other words, a little smaller than that of Ireland.
It measured four to five miles in circumference.
Among them slithered some sea elephants, a type of seal with a short, flexible trunk; these are the giants of the species, with a circumference of twenty feet and a length of ten meters.
But their lower jaws lack canines and incisors, and as for their upper canines, they consist of two tusks eighty centimeters long with a circumference of thirty-three centimeters at the socket.
Then his men simultaneously staked it off at several points around its circumference.
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat, and he reproached himself with not loving her.
Then, in order to proceed "by rule," the beadle conducted them right to the entrance near the square, where, pointing out with his cane a large circle of block-stones without inscription or carving—"This," he said majestically, "is the circumference of the beautiful bell of Ambroise.
In one place they found a spacious cavern, from whose ceiling depended a multitude of shining stalactites of the length and circumference of a man's leg; they walked all about it, wondering and admiring, and presently left it by one of the numerous passages that opened into it.
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.
I raised my head and saw straight above me the upper aperture of the cone, framing a bit of sky of very small circumference, but almost perfectly round.
"Without reckoning, too, that if a vertical depth of sixteen leagues can be attained only by a diagonal descent of eighty-four, it follows that we must go eight thousand miles in a south-easterly direction; so that we shall emerge from some point in the earth's circumference instead of getting to the centre!""Confusion to all your figures, and all your hypotheses besides," shouted my uncle in a sudden rage.