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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
perimeter
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
outer
▪ This is a one metre band marked inside the outer perimeter.
▪ The outer perimeter carries a raised ridge.
■ NOUN
fence
▪ The inner Zones 1 and 2 are enclosed by a 19-mile perimeter fence.
wall
▪ She too looks like a retired person, retired from the turbulence beyond the perimeter wall.
■ VERB
set
▪ Letters and numbers set at random around its perimeter and an upended wine glass in the centre.
▪ They set up a perimeter on the white sand, went swimming, dug in deep for the night.
▪ She set off round the perimeter of the vast doorway, looking for anything that resembled a control panel.
▪ The agents backed off, setting up an armed perimeter around the house.
▪ Several civilian employees at Cu Chi were later found dead in the barbed wire set out around the perimeter.
▪ We got on the ground and set up a perimeter.
▪ Late in the afternoon they set up a perimeter near the coast.
▪ After several hours, everything quieted down, and we set up a perimeter again.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a perimeter fence
▪ A secure perimeter fence should be at least two metres high.
▪ Security guards patrol the perimeter.
▪ the perimeter of the airfield
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Adjust the starting point so that you avoid a very narrow margin at the perimeter.
▪ But the perimeter was small and surrounded by forest.
▪ By the year 2001 the tracks will circle the perimeter of the short-term parking garage roof in the middle of the loop.
▪ The men ate in a large tent outside the perimeter of the fence.
▪ The road continues past the buildings and after ¾ mile the trail runs off through the trees to the forest perimeter.
▪ We had dug in that night on perimeter, and it started raining.
▪ When the nine pins were in place, Brown joined up the perimeter of the area they bounded.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perimeter

Perimeter \Per*im"e*ter\, n. [Gr. ?; ? around + ? measure: cf. F. p['e]rim[`e]tre.]

  1. (Geom.) The outer boundary of a body or figure, or the sum of all the sides.

  2. An instrument for determining the extent and shape of the field of vision.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
perimeter

early 15c., "line around a figure or surface," from Latin perimetros, from Greek perimetron "circumference," from peri- "around" (see peri-) + metron "measure" (see meter (n.2)). Military sense of "boundary of a defended position" is attested from 1943.

Wiktionary
perimeter

n. 1 (context mathematics English) The sum of the distance of all the lengths of the sides of an object. 2 (context mathematics English) The length of such a boundary. 3 The outer limits of an area. See synonyms at circumference. 4 A fortified strip or boundary usually protecting a military position. 5 An instrument for determining the extent and shape of the field of vision.

WordNet
perimeter

  1. n. the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary [syn: margin, border]

  2. a line enclosing a plane areas

  3. the size of something as given by the distance around it [syn: circumference]

Wikipedia
Perimeter

A perimeter is a path that surrounds a two-dimensional shape. The word comes from the Greek peri (around) and meter (measure). The term may be used either for the path or its length - it can be thought of as the length of the outline of a shape. The perimeter of a circle or ellipse is called its circumference.

Calculating the perimeter has considerable practical applications. The perimeter can be used to calculate the length of fence required to surround a yard or garden. The perimeter of a wheel (its circumference) describes how far it will roll in one revolution. Similarly, the amount of string wound around a spool is related to the spool's perimeter.

Perimeter (video game)

Perimeter is a real-time strategy video game developed by K-D Lab for Microsoft Windows. It is published by 1C Company and Codemasters, and was released in 2004.

Perimeter (disambiguation)

The perimeter is the distance around a given two-dimensional object.

'''Perimeter ''' may also refer to:

  • The colloquial name for Interstate 285, and related locations Perimeter Center and Perimeter Mall
  • Perimeter (video game) and its sequel, Perimeter 2: New Earth
  • Perimeter Aviation
  • Perimeter fence
  • The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
  • Perimeter (EU Project), a research project, funded by the EU, aiming at user centred, seamless mobility
  • Perimeter (Soviet Union), or Dead Hand, Soviet missile defense system
  • Perimetry, a medical diagnostic device for visual field testing

Usage examples of "perimeter".

His feet dangled over the debris trench which circled the perimeter of the table, and which the suit assured him was reeking in the manner approved by Affronter gourmets.

The berm formed a defensive perimeter around the Willie ville complex.

An acre of gritty soil lacking the usual perimeter fence, the surface scarred and blotched with weed.

Several dozen absurdly dressed people mingled around a makeshift bar while models in Brinker Bras circulated the perimeter.

Garth Breise paused at the outer perimeter control tower and redirected the nearby spotlights to brighten all the area around the base of the tower.

Kara to misdirect them and then slipped through the perimeter when the officers started toward the girl.

It took me an hour and better to make my descent, moving quickly after I cleared the outmost perimeter of our guards.

The source of the flooding was all too easy to locate: close to the big fuel storage tanks just outwith the perimeter of the airport itself, a wide breach had appeared in the dyke of the canal to the south: the debris, stones and mud that were scattered along the top of the dyke on either side of the breach left no doubt that the rupture of the containing dyke had not been of a natural or spontaneous origin.

Day by day Vaughan followed Catherine around the expressways and airport perimeter roads, sometimes waiting for her in the damp cul-de-sac adjacent to our drive, at other times appearing like a spectre in the high-speed lane of the overpass, his battered car tilted over on its near-side springs.

He walked around the perimeter of the Pentangle, examining the five men who had been woven into the wheels.

Alphonso went through the plan step by step, illustrating wi lo red pebbles how the missile teams would move into position and he in readiness five hundred meters from the perimeter of the gunship laager, two teams confronting each sandbagged emplacement.

Steve Sheppard and the woman turned and began to walk around the perimeter of the schooling area.

Those too weak to oppose them were banished to the less favorable sections: around the perimeter of the hull, where the air circulated slower and thicker and the journey to water butt or soup tub was longer.

In the perimeter lights I saw dozens of diminutive men and women in black pajamas scurrying about, white stars sputtering from the muzzles of their weapons.

It had stopped raining, so she and Waldo went for a walk around the perimeter of the lake.