Associations to the word «Circumference»

Wiktionary

CIRCUMFERENCE, noun. (geometry) The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure
CIRCUMFERENCE, noun. (geometry) The length of such a line
CIRCUMFERENCE, noun. (obsolete) The surface of a round or spherical object
CIRCUMFERENCE, verb. (obsolete) (transitive) To include in a circular space; to bound.

Dictionary definition

CIRCUMFERENCE, noun. The size of something as given by the distance around it.
CIRCUMFERENCE, noun. The boundary line encompassing an area or object; "he had walked the full circumference of his land"; "a danger to all races over the whole circumference of the globe".
CIRCUMFERENCE, noun. The length of the closed curve of a circle.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats