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
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
Using either BMI or waist circumference provided a better balance between correctly identifying people with obesity and avoiding false-positive diagnoses.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Participants who exercised once per week and those who exercised three times per week reduced total body fat mass, body fat percentage, and waist circumference.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
According to the artifact’s item description, it could create a spherical shield around itself, with a circumference of up to half a kilometer.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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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
Or, more in agreement with Euclid’s form:— Two different circles, whose circumferences have a point in common, cannot have the same centre.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
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