Intersection of a sphere's surface with the plane perpendicular to the sphere's axis of rotation and midway between the poles.
1His great achievement was the determination of the circumference of the earth.
2That's bigger than the circumference of the earth.
3By 2020, Prime Minister Modi wants to pave a distance greater than the circumference of the earth.
4The distance from Puget Sound to Sand Key is more than two-thirds the circumference of the earth.
5He was of opinion that about one-third of the circumference of the earth was unknown and unexplored.
6I could run the circumference of the earth or I could stand here for eternity with this boy.
7Between Meru and the wall of stone forming the extreme circumference of the earth are seven concentric circles of rocks.
8Thus Archimedes starts out with the preliminary assumption that the circumference of the earth is less than three million stadia.
9Hence the circumference of the earth was fixed at two hundred and fifty thousand stadia, not far from the truth.
10The circumference of the earth is 123,249,600 feet.
11Posidonius calculated the circumference of the earth to be two hundred and forty thousand stadia, by a different method from Eratosthenes.
12He has the credit for being the first to calculate the circumference of the earth by means of his Theory of Shadows.
13Hence the circumference of the earth was fixed at two hundred and fifty thousand stadia,-whichis not very different from our modern computation.
14Behaim, however, could tell him a good deal about the supposed circumference of the earth, the extent of the Asiatic continent, and so on.
15At what rate is that per second, taking the circumference of the earth at 27,000 miles, more or less?
16On that machine, traveling the circumference of the earth would require just 12 liters (3.2 gallons) of fuel.
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