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SEMICIRCLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A plane figure with the shape of half a circle
Synonyms:
hemicycle; semicircle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("semicircle" is a kind of...):
plane figure; two-dimensional figure (a two-dimensional shape)
Derivation:
semicircular (curved into a half circle)