half-circle
Britishnoun
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one half of a circle
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half the circumference of a circle
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anything having the shape or form of half a circle
Example Sentences
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To the south, across the Mexican border, loomed another luminous half-circle from the lights of Nogales.
From Scientific American • Oct. 1, 2022
“It’s just a little, half-circle thing that lifts your heel up just a bit.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 30, 2022
Capcom, which brings on another drag fighter, and no quarter or half-circle directional inputs.
From The Verge • Feb. 1, 2022
They are putting up a Q Cabin, a 1,400-square-foot structure made from a half-circle of noncombustible steel.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2021
Within a day or two he had left; Galileo was thus in Rome as the Jesuit astronomers turned their telescopes on Venus and watched it move towards a half-circle.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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