Perimeter

Definition: Perimeter

Perimeter

Noun

1. The boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary.

2. A line enclosing a plane areas.

3. The size of something as given by the distance around it.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "perimeter" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references)

Synonyms: Perimeter

Outline

Noun: outline, circumference; perimeter, periphery, ambit, circuit, lines tournure, contour, profile, silhouette; bounds; coast line.

Crosswords: Perimeter

German (circumference, perimeter).

Around the survivors a perimeter create (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas)

Wherever the informant leads, it is our responsibility to follow him in a fluid moving perimeter. (That Darn Cat; writing credit: Gordon Gordon; Mildred Gordon)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Inside Network Perimeter Security: The Definitive Guide to Firewalls, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), Routers, and Intrusion Detection Systems (reference)

• Changing Gears: Bicycling America's Perimeter (reference)

• Key to Measurement: Measuring Length and Perimeter Using English Units (Key to Measurement, 2) (reference)

• Fire Brigade: United States Marines in the Pusan Perimeter (008-055-00218-4) (reference)

• Remember the Alamo: A Sentry Dog Handler's View of Vietnam from the Perimeter of Phan Rang Air Base (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Dominating Perimeter Play (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Outer Perimeter (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• CRIME STOPPER CS-95DFR Dual Field Radar and Perimeter Sensor (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Toro 30082 Perimeter Switch (reference)

• Toro 30083 Extra Perimeter Wire (500 ft per box) (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The West Fjords are a series of peninsulas in northwestern Iceland. They represent less than one-eighth the country's land area, but their jagged perimeter accounts for more than half of Iceland's total coastline. Credit: NASA.

Barren Island before the planting. The work at Barren Island provided a valuable lesson. Geotubes were placed around the perimeter of the island to form a wave break but they failed and the dredge material was washed away behind the tubes. Wave breaks in the future will be constructed of rock, which is more expensive, but a better alternative. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Penny Dalton, former Assistant Administrator for NOAA Fisheries, cleans trash and debris from the rip rap around the perimeter of the wetlands at Ft McHenry. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve. Bracket ferns line the West Perimeter Road. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Perimeter Charts, Showing the Fields Both For White and For Colours, in Cases of Central Amblyopia and Lead Poisoning. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Lieutenant Robert S. Selby, USN, shoots the sun with a sextant, while standing in one of the ship's 40mm gun tubs, April 1945. The ship is in Tanapag Harbor, Saipan, with several PBM seaplanes moored in the distance. Photographed by Ensign Thomas Binford, USNR. Note 40mm gun barrels overhead, and ready-service ammunition racks around the gun tub perimeter, some empty and some containing four-round clips of 40mm ammunition. Credit: NAVY.

British Matilda tanks seen on the move outside the perimeter of Tobruk. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

Spinal cord contusions result in a cavity or hole in the center of the spinal cord. Myelinated axons typically survive around the perimeter of the spinal cord, and the dura may even remain unbroken by the injury. (references)

Business

They usually require identification and access control equipment, perimeter security, monitoring and control devices, video monitors, T.V. cameras, warning and signaling devices, personal protection devices and accessories, armored vehicles and emergency response vehicles, checking, searching and investigation equipment. (references)

Economic History

South Korea

After initially falling back to the southeastern Pusan perimeter, UN forces conducted a successful surprise landing at Incheon and rapidly advanced up the peninsula. (references)

Cambodia

Simultaneous attacks around the perimeter of Phnom Penh pinned down Republican forces, while other Khmer Rouge units overran fire bases controlling the vital lower Mekong resupply route. (references)

Chile

Other security equipment that continues to be in demand includes access control, burglar and fire alarms and detectors, CCTV, outdoors photoelectric beam detectors for perimeter protection, and fire-fighting equipment. (references)

Human Rights

Panama

The DGSP largely depends on PNP officers to supply both internal and perimeter security at all prisons. (references)

Guatemala

The unit from Military Zone 12, charged with providing perimeter security at the prison, was suspiciously not present at the time of the escape on a Sunday afternoon. (references)

Guatemala

The military continued to provide perimeter security for various prisons, as it has done since 1998. On March 8, the Interior Minister fired the Director of the Preventive Detention Center in Zone 18 of the capital, Arimiro Rivas Urizar due to charges of corruption. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "perimeter": fire perimeter ♦ perimeter defence ♦ perimeter wall ♦ the perimeter of the town ♦ wetted perimeter. Additional references.

Beginning with "perimeter": perimeter-weighting.

Albanian

perimetër (circumference, compass), rrethues (environment, environmental). (various references)

Arabic 

‏محيط (ambience, circumference, circumscription, entourage, environment, medium, milieu, ocean, setting, surroundings), ‏حدود خارجية, ‏خط يطوق منطقة, ‏المحيط الشكل. (various references)

Bulgarian 

периметър. (various references)

Chinese 

週長 (circumference), 周长. (various references)

Czech

obvod (circuit, circumference, compass, district, Girt, periphery), délka obvodu. (various references)

Danish

hegn om udgravning (fence, fence of an excavation). (various references)

Dutch

omtrek (circumference, contour, environment, environs, outline, outskirts, periphery, surroundings). (various references)

Esperanto

perimetro (circumference). (various references)

Farsi 

فضای احاطه کننده , محیط (Circumference, Comprehensive, Entourage, Environment, Girth, Lap, Milieu, Outside, Periphery, Sphere). (various references)

French

périmètre (periphery). (various references)

German

Umfang (amount, area, bulk, capacity, circumference, compass, complexity, comprehensiveness, dimension, elaborateness, extend, extent, fatness, girt, girth, heaviness, largeness, length, periphery, range, scale, scope, size, span, spread, thoroughness, volume), Perimeter (circumference). (various references)

Greek 

περιφέρεια (borough, circuit, circumference, compass, contour, district, girth, periphery, precinct), περίμετροσ (ambit, circuit, compass, periphery), περίφραξη εκσκαφής (fence, fence of an excavation). (various references)

Hebrew 

פרימטר, הקף עגול. (various references)

Hungarian

kerület (idomé). (various references)

Indonesian

garis keliling. (various references)

Italian

perimetro, recinzione di uno scavo (fence, fence of an excavation), recinzione (enclosure, inclosure). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

外回り (circumference, outside work), 周囲長 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しゅういちょう, そとまわり (circumference, outside work). (various references)

Manx

ym-linney (circumference, contour, profile), reayrt-veih. (various references)

Pig Latin

erimeterpay.(various references)

Portuguese

perímetro (circumference, compasses, girth). (various references)

Romanian

perimetru (ambit, circumference), contur (contour, figuration, line, outline, profile, set), circumferinţã (boundaries, circle, circumference, girth, round). (various references)

Russian 

периметр. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

perimetar, periferija (outskirts, periphery), opseg (amplitude, extent, latitude, magnitude, plan range, purview, radius, volume), opsežni, obim (ambit, amplitude, bulk, circumference, extent, girth, latitude, parameter, scope, volume). (various references)

Spanish

perímetro (circumference, contour, outskirts, periphery). (various references)

Swedish

yttre försvarsverk, omkrets (circuit, circumference, circumscription, compass, girth, periphery). (various references)

Turkish

gözün görüş alanını ölçen alet, çevre uzunluğu, çevre (adjacencies, ambiance, ambience, ambient, ambit, atmosphere, circle, circumference, climate, compass, contour, domain, ecological, entourage, environment, environmental, girth, milieu, neighborhood, neighbourhood, periphery, precinct, precincts, premises, purlieus, radius, region, society, sphere, surroundings, vicinity). (various references)

Ukrainian

периметр. (various references)

Welsh

amfesur. (various references)

temen. (various references)

perimetros. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "perimeter": perimeters. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Perimeter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: paremeter, Parmentier, parmeter, perameter, perametter, peremeter, periameter, Perimedes, perimetet, perimetor, perimetral, perimetry, perimiter, perimitre, perimter, Perlmutter, permeter, permster, persimitis, Porometer, Primester, Proimager. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: premiere, retemper, temperer.

-2 letters: emptier, epimere, eremite, miterer, preemie, premeet, premier, preterm, pretrim, retiree, trireme.

-3 letters: eerier, empire, epimer, meeter, metier, peerie, permit, perter, premie, primer, reemit, remeet, retime, retire, retrim, teemer, temper, termer, trimer.

-4 letters: eerie, emeer, merer, merit, meter, metre, miter, mitre, peter, prier, prime, remet, remit, retem, retie, rimer, riper, tempi.

+1 letter: perimeters.

+2 letters: retempering.

+3 letters: experimenter, extemporizer, misrepresent, parameterize, predetermine, pretermitted, redemptioner, respirometer.

+4 letters: experimenters, extemporizers, interpermeate, misrepresents, parameterized, parameterizes, predetermined, predeterminer, predetermines, preexperiment, prefigurement, preretirement, pyrheliometer, redemptioners, respirometers.

+5 letters: distemperature, interpermeated, interpermeates, misinterpreted, misrepresented, peremptoriness, postretirement, predeterminers, predetermining, preexperiments, prefigurements, preretirements, pyrheliometers, respirometries, spectrometries.