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- A few enterprising developers bought up tracts of cheap land in Clarkston because of the town's location, just outside the Atlanta Perimeter—a beltway that encircles the city and offers easy access to the airport and downtown.†
Chpt 3perimeter = the outer edge
- The provost of Georgia Perimeter College, a community college just outside the city limits of Clarkston, agreed to provide an auditorium and to act as a moderator.†
Chpt 3 *
- ON THE EVENING of March 31, 2003, about a hundred and twenty Clarkston residents filed into an auditorium at Georgia Perimeter College and began to fill out index cards with questions.†
Chpt 3
- On one of those trips, Luma found herself lost in what seemed to be a run-down area beyond the eastern side of the Perimeter, only a few miles east of Decatur.†
Chpt 4
- There was a smattering of grass that took root in hard red clay around the perimeter, but most of the playing surface was dug out of dry Georgia chalk.†
Chpt 10
- There was a TV on a stand in the corner, with rabbit-ears antennae on top and a VCR underneath, and three old sofas around the perimeter of the living room—all items that had been donated to the family by a local church.†
Chpt 14
- The Fugees ran laps around the perimeter to warm up, Kanue in the lead.†
Chpt 17
- The fields at Clarkston High School and at nearby Georgia Perimeter College were booked for the fall.†
Chpt 20
- The air was cool and damp, and long puddles of runoff from the field's crown collected around its perimeter, rippled by breeze.†
Chpt 31
- The Fugees kept fighting, firing a series of quick shots from around the perimeter of the box.†
Chpt 31
Definitions:
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(1)
(perimeter) the outer edgeThe 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
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)