circumference

Where body fat accumulates can be important for health, which is one reason waist circumference can provide information that BMI alone does not capture.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

Even when used on its own, waist circumference performed nearly as well.

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

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

With them he deduced the circumference of the Earth with an error of only a few percent, a remarkable achievement for 2,200 years ago.

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

Thus the power applied to the axle is carried at once to the parts of the wheels of least stress—the circumferences.

From The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction Volume 14, No. 391, September 26, 1829 by Various