circumference
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That approach combines BMI, waist circumference, waist-to-height ratio and waist-to-hip ratio.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Hip circumference, which is needed for one of the measurements in the proposed framework, is rarely recorded during routine clinical visits.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Earlier results from the Habitual Diet and Avocado Trial showed that adding a daily avocado did not reduce body weight or waist circumference in people with obesity.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
They measured each baby's 2D:4D ratio and compared it with head circumference.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
Construction crews stretched barbed-wire fencing across the entire twenty-seven-mile border separating East from West Berlin, and also around the entire ninety-seven-mile circumference of West Berlin itself.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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The helmets are marked as large, for head circumferences between 22.5 to 25 inches.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
Drips are indulged, or even encouraged, and rings of painted dots often trace the circumferences of larger orbs.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022
During an inspection Dec. 15, Sampson observed “numerous” branches with 2- to 8-inch circumferences that were severed by the aerial saw and allowed to fall from 150 feet above, according to the violation notice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2022
A meager set is a set contained in the countable union of nowhere dense sets, such as the circumference of a circle in the plane, or finitely or countably many such circumferences.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2021
The proportion of diameters to circumferences is the same.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert
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