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PERIMETER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The size of something as given by the distance around it

Synonyms:

circumference; perimeter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("perimeter" is a kind of...):

size (the physical magnitude of something (how big it is))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "perimeter"):

girth (the distance around a person's body)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A line enclosing a plane areas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("perimeter" is a kind of...):

line (a length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary

Synonyms:

border; margin; perimeter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("perimeter" is a kind of...):

bound; boundary; edge (a line determining the limits of an area)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "perimeter"):

lip (either the outer margin or the inner margin of the aperture of a gastropod's shell)

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