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Example sentences for "perimeters"

Lexicographically close words:
perillous; perilous; perilously; perils; perimeter; perinde; perineal; perineum; period; periode
  1. Defn: The science of figures having equal perimeters or boundaries.

  2. Defn: Having equal perimeters of circumferences; as, isoperimetrical figures or bodies.

  3. The science of figures having equal perimeters or boundaries.

  4. At twilight, after heavy artillery fire, the enemy launched a strong counterattack which forced the battalions to withdraw to the river bank, where they established perimeters for the night.

  5. Unable to move forward, the battalions established their front lines and perimeters for the night along a line just north of Ormoc.

  6. The 2d Squadron established night perimeters near the same positions it had held the previous night.

  7. They were complete perimeters and employed all-round mutually supporting automatic weapons fire.

  8. The 1st and 2d Battalions formed their night perimeters within fifty yards of the enemy front lines.

  9. Night perimeters were established on the edge of Breakneck Ridge.

  10. The Japanese with fixed bayonets charged against the perimeters and almost completely surrounded both companies.

  11. The defensive perimeters of the 32d Infantry were set up.

  12. Because of the lateness of the hour and the fact that observation had shown there were "many more Japanese" on the north of the airstrip than had been estimated by General Swing, it was decided to establish perimeters for the night.

  13. Night perimeters were set up about a mile northwest of Tabontabon with the 3d Battalion on the left side of the road and the 1st Battalion on the right.

  14. She obligingly furnished a sample: "The perimeters of similar polygons are as their homologous sides.

  15. X Onions and Orchids "The perimeters of similar polygons are as their homologous sides.

  16. The latter, as we know, calculated the perimeters of successive polygons, passing from one polygon to another of double the number of sides; in a similar manner Gregory calculated the areas.

  17. This is sometimes accomplished by so mounting the stones in their frames that their perimeters touch at the back of each stone, one stone running slightly faster than the other.

  18. It is preferable also if the under faces of these collars be recessed to within an inch of their perimeters so as to confine the grip to the outer edges of the faces.

  19. The flanges between which the wheel is held are recessed so as to grip the wheel at and near their perimeters only.

  20. It is obvious, however, that when the perimeters of A B meet the shoulders O O, Fig.

  21. A, and place the edge of a spirit-level coincident with the perimeters of the crank pin and circle, as shown in the cut.

  22. Proclus speaks of travelers who described the size of cities by the perimeters, and of men who cheated others by pretending to give them as much land as they themselves had, when really they made only the perimeters equal.

  23. The perimeters of similar regular polygons are proportional to their radii, and their areas to the squares of the radii.

  24. If the side of one equilateral triangle is three times as long as that of another, how do the perimeters compare?

  25. The proportionality of the circumferences of circles to their radii must be inferred directly from the proportionality of the perimeters of regular polygons, of the same number of sides, to their apothems.

  26. The perimeters of two similar polygons are to each other as the homologous sides of these polygons.

  27. Regular polygons of the same number of sides are similar, and their perimeters are to each other as the radii of the circles to which they are inscribed or circumscribed.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perimeters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.