circumference

Head circumference is commonly used as a general indicator of brain size in newborns.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026

And it was a nerve-shredding putt from inside three feet that travelled most of the circumference of the hole before dropping that deservedly saw Korda home.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

Average body weight was 99.0 kg, average BMI was 36.6 kg/m², and average waist circumference was 115 cm.

From Science Daily ● May 11, 2026

Patients also showed improvements relative to placebo on key secondary goals of the trial including waist circumference, blood glucose and blood pressure, they added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

Seven degrees is something like one-fiftieth of three hundred and sixty degrees, the full circumference of the Earth.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

Two circumferences have the same ratio as their radii.

From The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith