different between periphery vs diameter

English

Etymology

From Middle English periferie, from Old French peripherie, from Late Latin peripheria, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (periphéreia, “the line around the circle, circumference, part of a circle, an arc, the outer surface”), from ????????? (peripher?s, “moving around, round, circular”), from ???????? (periphér?, “I carry around, move around”), from ???? (perí, “around, about, near”) (English peri-) + ???? (phér?, “I bear, carry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p????f??i/
• Hyphenation US: pe?riph?ery; UK: per?iph?ery

Noun

periphery (plural peripheries)

1. The outside boundary, parts or surface of something.

   The suburbs are a city's periphery.

2. A first-rank administrative division of Greece, subdivided in provinces.

Antonyms

• center

Related terms

• peripherad
• peripheral

Translations

Further reading

• periphery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• periphery in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Alternative forms

• diametre
• ? (abbreviation)

Etymology

From Old French diametre (French diamètre), from Latin diametrus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diámetros) (?????? (gramm?)) (diametros gramm?, “line measuring across”), from ??? (diá, “across”) + ?????? (métron, “measure”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /da??æm?t?(?)/
• (General American) enPR: d?-?m'?t?r, IPA^(key): /da??æm?t?/, [-m???]

Noun

diameter (plural diameters)

1. (geometry) Any straight line between two points on the circumference of a circle that passes through the centre/center of the circle.
2. (geometry) The length of such a line.
3. (geometry) The maximum distance between any two points in a metric space
4. (graph theory) The maximum eccentricity over all vertices in a graph.

Related terms

• diametric
• diametrically
• semidiameter

Translations

See also

• circumference
• radius

Anagrams

• Demetria, diametre, diatreme

Danish

Noun

diameter c (singular definite diameteren, plural indefinite diametre)

1. a diameter

References

• “diameter” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French diamètre, from Latin diametrus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diámetros). Equivalent to dia- +? meter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?di.a??me?.t?r/
• Hyphenation: di?a?me?ter

Noun

diameter m (plural diameters, diminutive diametertje n)

1. diameter (length of diametrical chord)
2. diameter (diametrical chord)

   Synonym: middellijn

See also

• straal
• omtrek
• doorsnee

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

diameter m (definite singular diameteren, indefinite plural diametere or diametre or diametrer, definite plural diameterne or diametrene)

1. a diameter

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

diameter m (definite singular diameteren, indefinite plural diameterar or diametrar, definite plural diameterane or diametrane)

1. a diameter

Swedish

Noun

diameter c

1. (geometry) diameter

Declension

Anagrams

• meditera