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  • noun Plural form of semicircle.

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Examples

  • A better story, though not necessarily a good one, might begin: Yesterday morning, over my usual bowl of Cheerios, I was alarmed to note that the Cheerios were shaped not as standard circles, but as semicircles, as if someone had used a surgical scalpel to slice each individual Cheerio precisely in half.

    Telling Tails Tim O 2009

  • This took more thought than my initial attempt, particularly in understanding how to constrain the locators so that the endpoints of the semicircles land on the connection points.

    Wolfram Blog : Minimum Inventory, Maximum Diversity 2009

  • The same idea applies to the forms in the figure above, which are all constructed from semicircles joined at connection points evenly distributed along a vertical line.

    Wolfram Blog : Minimum Inventory, Maximum Diversity 2009

  • A better story, though not necessarily a good one, might begin: Yesterday morning, over my usual bowl of Cheerios, I was alarmed to note that the Cheerios were shaped not as standard circles, but as semicircles, as if someone had used a surgical scalpel to slice each individual Cheerio precisely in half.

    Telling Tails Tim O 2009

  • I designed a more usable widget (using the Locator function) that let me drag the semicircles directly and add and remove semicircles by command-clicking on a Mac (alt-clicking for Windows).

    Wolfram Blog : Minimum Inventory, Maximum Diversity 2009

  • He was looking tired, Mulcahy thought, noticing the dark semicircles forming beneath his eyes.

    The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011

  • Selgas Cano's "Erratic Void," from Madrid, is a small vibrant burst of brilliant color exploding from the oculus at its center, and Zaha Hadid's "Z Wave" reduces the spiral to a few dynamically enhanced speeding semicircles.

    Ramping Up Wright's Vision Ada Louise Huxtable 2010

  • Selgas Cano's "Erratic Void," from Madrid, is a small vibrant burst of brilliant color exploding from the oculus at its center, and Zaha Hadid's "Z Wave" reduces the spiral to a few dynamically enhanced speeding semicircles.

    Ramping Up Wright's Vision Ada Louise Huxtable 2010

  • Black asphalt streets were laid out in semicircles.

    Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010

  • Selgas Cano's "Erratic Void," from Madrid, is a small vibrant burst of brilliant color exploding from the oculus at its center, and Zaha Hadid's "Z Wave" reduces the spiral to a few dynamically enhanced speeding semicircles.

    Ramping Up Wright's Vision Ada Louise Huxtable 2010

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