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
Men qualified for the study if their waist circumference was greater than 40 inches, while women were eligible if their waist circumference exceeded 35 inches.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
Head circumference is commonly used as a general indicator of brain size in newborns.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
It had what looked like rays of light bursting out of a roaring tyrannosaurus in the center, and the words “K of the G C” were scrawled around the circumference.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
The helmets are marked as large, for head circumferences between 22.5 to 25 inches.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
Helmet sizes are measured by head circumference, and helmets usually come with adjustable dials to accommodate a range of circumferences.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 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
She held up her bit of paper as she spoke, scrawled over with intersecting circles and arcs and ellipses, against whose curves and circumferences she had written names: Marchbanks, Hadden, Goldthwaite, Holabird.
From We Girls: a Home Story by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
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