Difference between revisions of "Circumference"

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== See also ==
 
== See also ==
  
 
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* [[Arclength]]
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* [[Area]]
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* [[Caccioppoli set]]
 
* [[Circle]]
 
* [[Circle]]
 
* [[Diameter]]
 
* [[Diameter]]
 
* [[Geometry]]
 
* [[Geometry]]
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* [[Isoperimetric inequality]]
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* [[Pythagorean Theorem]]
 
* [[Radius]]
 
* [[Radius]]
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* [[Volume]]
  
 
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Latest revision as of 11:33, 13 May 2016

The circumference (from Latin circumferentia, meaning "carrying around") of a closed curve or circular object is the linear distance around its edge.

Description

The circumference of a circle is of special importance in geometry and trigonometry.

Informally "circumference" may also refer to the edge itself rather than to the length of the edge.

Circumference is a special case of perimeter: the perimeter is the length around any closed figure, but conventionally "perimeter" is typically used in reference to a polygon while "circumference" typically refers to a continuously differentiable curve.

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