Sentence examples for Perimeter from inspiring English sources
The word "Perimeter" is correct
It is used in mathematics to refer to the total distance around a two-dimensional shape. Example: "To find the perimeter of the rectangle, add the lengths of all four sides."
noun
The sum of the distance of all the lengths of the sides of an object.
"If you're on the perimeter, you're more likely to be predated.
The protesters on the security perimeter won't have access to the TPP text, or to the millions of dollars that companies are spending to lobby for Fast Tracking the global deal, but at least they'll have an intact sense of irony, which is more than I can say for our nation's president.
Visitors can walk or bike the perimeter, spotting but not disturbing the wildlife.
Up on the northwestern perimeter of London, in West Hendon, other council residents are fighting the borough of Barnet over the redevelopment of their estate on terms that suit the developer, Barratt Developments, not locals.
Whisky valued at £23,000 was stolen from the trailer of another lorry parked in a haulage yard, after a perimeter fence was cut.
Concentric metre-high banks with shallow ditches between mark the perimeter of a small hillfort.
Most of the white and black middle class barricade themselves behind increasing layers of security: bright lights; high perimeter-walls topped with electric fencing or razor wire; guard dogs; panic buttons and an alarm system linked to one of the many armed rapid-response security firms that promise to arrive within three minutes of a call.
First, a road round the city's perimeter probably a series of Sea Link-style bridges along its entire west coast, and on its east coast a highway partly to be built on land occupied by the city's dying old port.
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), in Waterloo, Ontario, which has just opened a snazzy, new wing named after Stephen Hawking, the world's most famous living physicist, offers all three.PI was set up in 1999 by Mike Lazaridis, founder and co-CEO of Research in Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry range of personal digital assistants.
As Cliff Burgess of Perimeter Institute, a Canadian theoretical-physics centre, puts it, "The dark energy business very easily degenerates into something like a crowd of people who are each claiming to be Napoleon while asserting that all the other pretenders are clearly nutty".
Many scientists are asking themselves, what next Neil Turok, who heads Ontario's Perimeter Institute (PI), one of the world's leading centres for theoretical physics, thinks that answers are coming.
