"Perimeter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... draft loss in inches of water, W weight of gas in pounds passing per second, C perimeter of stack in feet, H height of stack in feet, f a constant with the following values at sea level: .0015 for steel stacks, temperature of gases 600 degrees Fahrenheit. .0011 for steel stacks, temperature ...
— Steam, Its Generation and Use • Babcock & Wilcox Co.
... Outline. — N. outline, circumference; perimeter, periphery, ambit, circuit, lines tournure[obs3], contour, profile, silhouette; bounds; coast line. zone, belt, girth, band, baldric, zodiac, girdle, tyre[Brit], cingle[obs3], clasp, girt; cordon &c. (inclosure) ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... circuit some sixteen miles. The range of the heavier hostile guns, as revealed by their early practice, compelled an extension to this degree, in order to hold them back beyond easy {p.194} command of the town. Fortunately this perimeter, which would indicate the enclosed area to have a diameter of from five to six miles, could be manned without overtaxing the numbers of the garrison. At the moment of investment the British force fit for duty was 572 officers and 12,924 men; total, 13,496. Of these, during the ...
— Story of the War in South Africa - 1899-1900 • Alfred T. Mahan
... the local slope of a river is the result and measure of the resistance of its bed, it is evident that a narrow and deep stream should have less slope, because it has less frictional surface in proportion to capacity; i.e., less perimeter in proportion to area of cross section. The ultimate effect of levees and revetments confining the floods and bringing all the stages of the river into register is to deepen the channel and let down the slope. The first effect of the levees ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... group of four penetrated into the enclosure which but a few moments before had been guarded all round its perimeter by a small army of determined men, more and more of the Legionaries began to concentrate ...
— The Flying Legion • George Allan England
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