Origin: Latin suffix -ence
Circumference has 5 different meanings across 1 category:
the size of something as given by the distance around it
"The tailor measured the circumference of my waist to ensure the new skirt would fit perfectly."
the boundary line encompassing an area or object
"he had walked the full circumference of his land"
"a danger to all races over the whole circumference of the globe"
the length of the closed curve of a circle
"She used a flexible tape measure to find the circumference of the round pond before planting lilies around its edge."
The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure
"The perimeter of the circular garden is exactly twenty feet, so we need to buy enough fencing to cover its entire circumference."
To include in a circular space; to bound.
"The ancient wall served as a circumference that once enclosed the entire city."