All 15 Uses
perimeter
in
The Second Siege
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- With a snap of his fingers, there was an audible pop and Mr. Sikes disappeared, replaced by a gray mouse with a pink tail that poked its nose along the edges of David's glowing perimeter.†
Chpt 2 *perimeter = the outer edge
- How is your friend?" asked Vilyak, guiding Max along the room's perimeter.†
Chpt 4
- Max walked slowly around the perimeter, stopping at a tall bookcase whose contents were labeled by a brass plate: INDEX LIBRORUM PROHIBITORUM.†
Chpt 8
- Shapes swam before Max's eyes; Nick howled and raced around the room's perimeter.†
Chpt 9
- The door's outer edge was carved with a dozen cat-sized ants in a frozen march around the perimeter.†
Chpt 10
- Pulling the wheel hard to his right, Cooper knocked one of the riders from his horse before yanking the wheel back to the left and hugging the pyramid's perimeter.†
Chpt 11
- David swept away bits of grass and dirt until the surface was clean, then stepped off the circle and pointed his small index finger at its perimeter.†
Chpt 13
- A green flame, thin as a laser, burst through the stone and traced a slow, precise circle that glowed along the stone's perimeter.†
Chpt 13
- The Demon said nothing for some time as he stood just beyond the circle's perimeter.†
Chpt 13
- "Pity," said the Demon, pacing slowly about the perimeter again.†
Chpt 13
- Long seconds passed while Astaroth strolled about the perimeter, looking bored.†
Chpt 13
- She is far," said the Demon, his voice fading to a silken whisper as he leaned close to the circle's perimeter.†
Chpt 13
- David tugged at Max's arm and the two hurried up the steps, winding up and around the Archives' perimeter until they stopped, breathless, at a remote stack of dusty tomes and ribbonbound papers.†
Chpt 14
- His fingers felt the perimeter of a circle, carved like the lid of a jack-o'—lantern into the back of the figure.†
Chpt 14
- — ken and scattered like rag dolls about the perimeter of a smoldering crater.†
Chpt 19
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)