circumference
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the size of something as given by the distance around it
Types & categories
Sense 2 noun
the boundary line encompassing an area or object
he had walked the full circumference of his land
Types & categories
- border hypernym
Related & opposite
- circumferential derivation
- encompassinga derivation
Sense 3 noun
the length of the closed curve of a circle
Types & categories
- length hypernym
Parts & wholes
- sextant part meronym
- straight angle part meronym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | size |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | girth |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | circumferential |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | encompassinga |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | border |
| 3 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | sextant |
| 3 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | straight angle |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | length |