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Word Meanings - PERIPHERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The circumference of a circle, ellipse, or other figure. (more info) 1. The outside or superficial portions of a body; the surface.

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  • CIRCUITOUS
    Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accompalishing an end. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ness, n. Syn. -- Tortuous; winding; sinuous; serpentine.
  • ENCLOSURE
    Inclosure. See Inclosure. Note: The words enclose and enclosure are written indiscriminately enclose or inclose and enclosure or inclosure.
  • CIRCUITY
    A going round in a circle; a course not direct; a roundabout way of proceeding.
  • CIRCUITER
    One who travels a circuit, as a circuit judge. R. Whitlock.
  • CIRCUMFERENCE
    1. The line that goes round or encompasses a circular figure; a periphery. Millon. 2. A circle; anything circular. His ponderous shield . . . Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon. Milton. 3. The external
  • PERIPHERY
    The circumference of a circle, ellipse, or other figure. (more info) 1. The outside or superficial portions of a body; the surface.
  • CIRCUIT
    1. The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun. Watts. 2. The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area.
  • OUTLINEAR
    Of or pertaining to an outline; being in, or forming, an outline. Trench.
  • CIRCUITION
    The act of going round; circumlocution.
  • CIRCUITEER
    A circuiter. Pope.
  • OUTLINE
    The line which marks the outer limits of an object or figure; the exterior line or edge; contour. In art: A line drawn by pencil, pen, graver, or the like, by which the boundary of a figure is indicated. A sketch composed of such lines;
  • BOUNDARY
    That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit. But still his native country lies Beyond the boundaries of the skies. N. Cotton. That bright and tranquil
  • SHORT CIRCUIT
    A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
  • BREAK-CIRCUIT
    A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit.
  • PHANTOM CIRCUIT
    The equivalent of an additional circuit or wire, in reality not existing, obtained by certain arrangements of real circuits, as in some multiplex telegraph systems.
  • SHORT-CIRCUIT
    To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance.
  • SEMI CIRCUMFERENCE
    Half of a circumference.

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