PERIMETER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does perimeter mean? 

• PERIMETER (noun)
  The noun PERIMETER has 3 senses:

1. the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary

2. a line enclosing a plane areas

3. the size of something as given by the distance around it

  Familiarity information: PERIMETER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERIMETER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

border; margin; perimeter

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)

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 size of something as given by the distance around it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

circumference; perimeter

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)

 Context examples 

A type of graph where all nodes are placed on the perimeter of a circle and are joined by lines passing within the circle.

(Graph Circular Layout, NCI Thesaurus)

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a giant oval of crimson-colored clouds in Jupiter's southern hemisphere that race counterclockwise around the oval's perimeter with wind speeds greater than any storm on Earth.

(NASA's Juno Probes the Depths of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, NASA)

Keeping projects within financial perimeters and on time will be important to clients and higher-ups.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The new discoveries show that the formation 40 to 50 million years ago of the Pacific Ring of Fire, an active seafloor zone along the perimeter of the Pacific Ocean, caused dramatic changes in ocean depth and volcanic activity and buckled the seabed of Zealandia.

(Scientists return from expedition to lost continent of Zealandia, National Science Foundation)

You are ruled by Jupiter, the expansive planet, so you don’t like any kind of budget or perimeter to hem you in.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)