Semicircle

Definition: Semicircle

Semicircle

Noun

1. A plane figure with the shape of half a circle.

Date "semicircle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonym: Semicircle

Synonym: hemicycle (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Circularity	Ellipse, oval, ovule; ellipsoid, cycloid; epicycloid, epicycle; semicircle; quadrant, sextant, sector.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Semicircle

English words defined with "semicircle": bear claw, bear paw ♦ Fertile Crescent ♦ Imperfect arch ♦ Pelecoid ♦ Semiannular ♦ Zenith telescope. (references)

Specialty definitions using "semicircle": ARBORER ♦ CANOPY STRINGER ♦ navigable semicircle ♦ ring maker ♦ semicircumferentor. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Quality Living in the Semicircle of Life (reference) The Semicircle Law, Free Random Variables, and Entropy (Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, 77) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Semicircle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Semicircle" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	32	61,292

Expression using "semicircle": navigable semicircle. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "semicircle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		gjysmërreth (half-circle). (various references)

Arabic		‏نصف دائرة, ‏شىء نصف دائري. (various references)

Bulgarian		полукръг (half round). (various references)

Chinese		半圆 (semicircular), 半�" . (various references)

Czech		pùlkruh. (various references)

Danish		farlig halvcirkel (dangerous semicircle), farbar halvcirkel (navigable semicircle). (various references)

Dutch		minder gevaarlijke helft (navigable semicircle), gevaarlijke sector (dangerous semicircle), gevaarlijke helft (dangerous semicircle). (various references)

Farsi		نیمدایره , نیم دایره تشکیل دادن . (various references)

Finnish		puoliympyrä. (various references)

French		demi-cercle. (various references)

German		Halbkreis (halfcircle, semi circle). (various references)

Greek		ημικύκλιο (assembly hall, chamber, conference room, semi circle). (various references)

Hungarian		félkör (half round, semi circle). (various references)

Italian		semicerchio (halfcircle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		半輪 (half-moon), 半月 (half month, half-moon), 半周 (half globe). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		は�"しゅう (half globe), は�"つき (half month, half-moon), は�"り�" (half-moon), は�"�'つ (half month, half-moon). (various references)

Korean		반원. (various references)

Manx		lieh-chiarkylagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		emicirclesay

Portuguese		semicírculo. (various references)

Romanian		semiciclu, semicerc (hemicycle). (various references)

Russian		полукруг (half round). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		uglomer (bevel, protractor), polukrug (half round). (various references)

Spanish		semicírculo. (various references)

Swedish		halvcirkel. (various references)

Thai		ครึ่งวงกลม. (various references)

Turkish		yarım daire. (various references)

Ukranian		півкруг (half round), півколо. (various references)

Vietnamese		nửa vòng tròn (semi-circumference), hình bán nguyệt (semicircular). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "semicircle": semicircles. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-i-i-l-m-r-s"
	-2 letters: cicelies.
	-3 letters: ceilers, cilices, cimices, circles, clerics, icicles, mercies, milreis, slimier.
	-4 letters: ceiler, cercis, cerise, cilice, circle, cleric, climes, creels, cremes, crimes, crisic, elemis, elmier, icicle, limier, merles, milers, mislie, recces, relics, relies, remise, resile, simile, slicer, smiler.
	-5 letters: ceils, cerci, ceres, ceric, cires, clime, creel, creme, cries, crime, elemi, emirs, icier, leers, liers.
	Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-i-i-l-m-r-s"
	+1 letter: semicircles.
	+3 letters: commercialise.
	+4 letters: clitorectomies, commercialised, commercialises, commercializes, microcephalies, reacclimatizes, semicommercial.
	+5 letters: commercialities, eclaircissement, misrecollection.
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