circumference
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Waist circumference is much easier to measure and is increasingly included in clinical guidelines, according to the researchers.
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
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
The octagon P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 is inscribed in a circle, with the vertices around the circumference in the given order.
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
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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
In both the chucks thus far described, the construction has been arranged to close the splits and thus grip the circumferences of cylindrical bodies, but in Fig.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
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