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Perimeter   /pərˈɪmətər/   Listen
Perimeter

noun
1.
The boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary.  Synonyms: border, margin.
2.
A line enclosing a plane areas.
3.
The size of something as given by the distance around it.  Synonym: circumference.





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"Perimeter" Quotes from Famous Books



... that the great extent of its perimeter, more than four and a half miles, made it a very difficult place to defend; but, remembering the grievous results of General Elphinstone's force being scattered in 1841, I thought the advantage of being able to keep my troops together outweighed ...
— Forty-one years in India - From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief • Frederick Sleigh Roberts
... Antonyms: circumference, perimeter, rim, boundary. Associated Words: centrifugal, centrifugence, centricity, centripetal, centripetence, centrality, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... explosion. This would enable them to determine whether a delivery aircraft would be endangered. However, because of bad weather on shot-day, Dr. Oppenheimer canceled the aircraft's flight in the ground zero area. Instead, the two B-29s, each with 12 men onboard, flew along the perimeter of the bombing range and observed the shot from a distance of 19 to 29 kilometers. Among those observers was a Navy captain who was also the MED Chief of ...
— Project Trinity 1945-1946 • Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer


Words linked to "Perimeter" :   girth, lip, line, bound, border, size, edge, circumference, boundary


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