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Word: Circumference
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late Middle English: from Old French circonference, from Latin circumferentia, from circum ‘around, about’ + ferre ‘carry, bear’
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Phonetic Spelling:
səˈkʌmf(ə)rəns
Dialects: British English
Definition:
the enclosing boundary of a curved geometric figure, especially a circle.
Short Definition:enclosing boundary of curved geometric figure
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