semicircle
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For instance, traveling from the North Pole to the South Pole along Earth's surface follows a semicircle, which represents the shortest possible route on a sphere.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 9, 2026
When you put it on you see before you four empty wooden chairs ranged in a semicircle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
The playa is arranged as a semicircle, and radial streets are named as if their position were a clock face.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2025
Doors opened and shut, and people began to emerge, gathering into a semicircle.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2025
The tribe lay in a semicircle before him.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
“Feeling valued” and “adding value” form semicircles around the target, and an outer circle replicates the four domains for each of the “value” categories in the adjacent inner ring.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 6, 2022
The device is a decidedly un-cuddly thing: two squat semicircles joined to one other.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2022
He draws his characters in a way that initially suggests minimal emotion: their eyes are dots, their mouths small semicircles.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 14, 2019
Figure 5.30 The polar region R lies between two semicircles.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
Stick the straight edge of the semicircles to the tape, leaving the circular edge hanging off at the tail end.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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