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circumference
English
Etymology
From Latin circumferentia, from circum (“around”) + fer? (“I carry”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: sûrk?m'fr?ns, IPA(key): /s???k?m.f??ns/
- (US) enPR: sûrk?m'fr?ns, IPA(key): /s???k?m.f??ns/
- Rhymes: -?ns
Noun
circumference (plural circumferences)
- (geometry) The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure
- (geometry) The length of such a line
- (obsolete) The surface of a round or spherical object
- (graph theory) The length of the longest cycle of a graph
Synonyms
- (geometry): perimeter, umstroke
- (distance measured around any object): girth
- (distance measured around a race track): lap
Related terms
- diameter
- radius
- perimeter
Translations
Verb
circumference (third-person singular simple present circumferences, present participle circumferencing, simple past and past participle circumferenced)
- (obsolete, transitive) To include in a circular space; to bound.
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fringe
English
Etymology
From Middle English frenge, from Old French frenge, from Vulgar Latin *frimbia, metathesis of Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”, plural). (Cognates include German Franse and Danish frynse.) Doublet of fimbria.
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /f??nd?/
- Rhymes: -?nd?
Noun
fringe (plural fringes)
- A decorative border.
- the fringe of a picture
- A marginal or peripheral part.
- 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]
- the confines of grace and the fringes of repentance
- 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]
- Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding unorthodox views.
- The periphery of a town or city (or other area).
- (Britain) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across.
- Her fringe is so long it covers her eyes.
- 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
- In a few minutes Mrs. Athelny appeared. She had taken her hair out of the curling pins and now wore an elaborate fringe.
- “No.” Astrid?s tone dismissed Sophie and the fringe as she galloped off to a new topic.
- 2009, Geraldine Biddle-Perry, Sarah Cheang, Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion, page 231,
- Set against the seductive visual and textual imagery of these soft-focus fantasy worlds, the stock list details offer the reader a very real solution to achieving the look themselves, ‘Hair, including coloured fringes (obtainable from Joseph, £3.50) by Paul Nix’ (Baker 1972a: 68).
- (physics) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
- interference fringe
- Non-mainstream theatre.
- The Fringe; Edinburgh Fringe; Adelaide Fringe
- (botany) The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
- (golf) The area around the green
- (Australia) Used attributively with reference to Aboriginal people living on the edge of towns etc.
- 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 20:
- All the fringe people thought it was such a good house, ingenious in fact, and erected similar makeshift housing for themselves.
- 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 20:
- (television, radio) A daypart that precedes or follows prime time.
Synonyms
- (members of a political party, or any social group, holding unorthodox views): fringe group
- (periphery of a town or city): outskirts
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
fringe (not comparable)
- Outside the mainstream.
Synonyms
- alternative
- nonmainstream
Translations
Verb
fringe (third-person singular simple present fringes, present participle fringing, simple past and past participle fringed)
- (transitive) To decorate with fringe.
- (transitive) To serve as a fringe.
Translations
Anagrams
- Finger, finger
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