All 3 Uses of
perimeter
in
Nineteen Minutes
- When he walked around the perimeter of a vandalized barn or found the stolen car stripped down and dumped in the woods or handed the tissue to the sobbing girl who'd been date-raped, Patrick couldn't help but feel that he was too late.†
Chpt 1perimeter = the outer edge
- She walked around the perimeter of the block house and reentered through the front door.†
Chpt 1 *
- They'd swim around the perimeter gingerly, as if they knew they had to assess the dangers of this new place before they could even begin to function.†
Chpt 2
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