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semicircle

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semicircle
a. one half of a circle
b. half the circumference of a circle

semicircle [′sem·i‚sər·kəl]
(mathematics)
One of the two parts of a circle that extend from one end of a diameter to the other, and whose length is one-half that of the circle.


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The Priests were to be painted in the same way, red being applied to that semicircle in which the eye and mouth formed the middle point; while the other or hinder semicircle was to be coloured green.
This is a semicircle cut into the lawn and edged with privet, and in this semicircle are eleven beds of different sizes bordered with box and arranged round a sun-dial, and the sun-dial is very venerable and moss-grown, and greatly beloved by me.
With its faint, grey streaks came the savages of Bekwando, crawling up in a semicircle through the long, rough grass, then suddenly, at a signal, bounding upright with spears poised in their hands - an ugly sight in the dim dawn for men chilled with the moist, damp air and only half-awake.
 
 
 
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