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semicircle /'semisɜ:kl/ n စက္ဝိုင္းျခမ္း။ စက္ဝိုင္းျခမ္းပံု။ a semicircle of chairs ❍ sitting in a semicircle round the fire. ❍ CIRCLE ❏ semicircular /semi'sɜ:kjǝlǝ(r)/ adj စက္ဝိုင္းျခမ္းပံု။ a semicircular flower-bed.

Examples

1. ‘It is a complete circle and then down on the bottom half there is a semicircle with a little circle above it.’
2. ‘Throughout the building
3. circles and semicircles mix with straight lines.’
4. ‘The crown was crafted out of platinum and designed as three semicircles
5. one in the center and one on each side.’
6. ‘Just beyond their embrace
7. their handlers pawed the ground
8. growling and barking on their hands and knees
9. held at bay by double semicircles etched in the dirt that demarcated their sides.’
10. ‘In other words
11. a semicircle and a family of abutting semicircles constructed on its diameter are isoperimetric.’
12. ‘The most ornamental part of doors was their heads
13. which took on various shapes
14. including triangles
15. semicircles or arcs.’
16. ‘The semicircles were made with a sweep of watercolor consisting of Reid's usual diluted mix of red
17. yellow and blue - a blend that resolves as gray.’
18. ‘They usually exhibit a cross section of roughly a semicircle.’
19. ‘Each half consisted of a line that was a semicircle.’
20. ‘A stationary front is denoted by semicircles and triangles on alternate sides of the front.’
21. ‘The solution
22. a semicircle whose diameter is on the given line
23. is obtained by reflecting the curve in the line and invoking the isoperimetric property of the circle.’
24. ‘It is two unequal semicircles (with diameters AB and BC) stuck together along their diameters.’
25. ‘His point is well taken
26. for if circles were defined in terms of semicircles
27. then presumably semicircles would be defined in terms of the quarter-circles of which they are composed
28. and so on
29. ad infinitum.’
30. ‘This he affected by circumscribing a semicircle about an isosceles right-angled triangle and a segment of a circle similar to those cut off by the sides.’
31. ‘His method uses a semicircle rotating in three dimensional space and the curve formed by it cutting another three dimensional surface.’
32. ‘It appears in all the canvases and works on paper in different combinations and permutations
33. linked by linear extensions that form varying kinds of S-curves or semicircles.’
34. ‘Taki - she hasn't gotten his last name and probably never will - has big dark semicircles of anxiety sweat under the arms of his button-down shirt.’
35. ‘It is well burnished only on the exterior body
36. which is decorated with a series of engraved ticked circles and semicircles.’
37. ‘In the 70°C samples
38. semicircles and sinusoidal bends are observed.’
39. ‘To the left of the ‘dagger’ a black triangle is gently crowned by a semicircle
40. gloomily dark gray.’