All 16 Uses of
perimeter
in
White: The Great Pursuit
- Close the perimeter.†
Chpt 9perimeter = the outer edge
- Thomas crouched in the forest watching the frenzied search of the house and its perimeter.†
Chpt 9 *
- The president had allowed Kara to stay in the White House, where she'd observed the chaos from as close as she dared, which was mostly in the halls and on the perimeter.†
Chpt 14
- Steam from the hot rocks the servants had set inside the pool rose around the perimeter.†
Chpt 16
- A line of tan APCs had been stationed every fifty yards to form a large perimeter around the White House grounds.†
Chpt 20
- Above them, thirty armed guards the president had called in from the special forces formed a perimeter around the stone building on Johns Hopkins's otherwise vacated campus.†
Chpt 20
- Johan stood and paced the perimeter.†
Chpt 24
- Perimeter check.†
Chpt 24
- They d stolen the morst paste and powder with some clothes after dark, from a house on the city s perimeter.†
Chpt 27
- At the bottom, a balcony ran the perimeter of the top floor.†
Chpt 27
- The perimeter around the White House may be reestablished, but they re tearing the city apart.†
Chpt 29
- Thomas pulled on the night-vision goggles, squinted at the green light, and then slowly scanned the perimeter.†
Chpt 35
- Fifty torches blazed in the midnight hour, lighting the perimeter of the compound and path to the single entrance.†
Chpt 38
- There was a chance the communications operator in the basement might not have heard, but the guards on the perimeter would have.†
Chpt 40
- Form a perimeter at the top of the shore, Ciphus said.†
Chpt 44
- Two dozen guards had formed a line by the platform, barring them from following Qurong, who was just now guiding his horse past a hastily formed perimeter guard.†
Chpt 44
Definition:
the outer edge
The exact meaning of perimeter can depend upon its context. For example:
- "Stay inside the defensive perimeter." -- the outer edges of the area that is defended
- "It is common on the city's perimeter." -- the outer edges of the city
- "What is the perimeter of the square?" -- the sum of the length of the sides of a geometric shape