Circumference Meaning
/sɜːˈkʌmfɹəns/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
nounThe length of such a line.
Sentence Examples
God is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference is nowhere.
The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.
Is it possible to determine the diameter from the circumference?
CEFR Practice Quiz
The tree trunk's ____ measured three meters around at its base.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We measured the ____ of the large oak tree in the school park city.
Word Origin & History
From Latin circumferentia, from circum (“around”) + ferō (“to carry”). Displaced native Old English ymbgang.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Nor is the vigour of this great body included only in itself, or circumferenced by its surface"
— 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The tree trunk's ____ measured three meters around at its base.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We measured the ____ of the large oak tree in the school park city.