What's the difference between demicircle and semicircle?

Demicircle


Definition:

  • (n.) An instrument for measuring angles, in surveying, etc. It resembles a protractor, but has an alidade, sights, and a compass.

Example Sentences:

Semicircle


Definition:

  • (n.) The half of a circle; the part of a circle bounded by its diameter and half of its circumference.
  • (n.) A semicircumference.
  • (n.) A body in the form of half of a circle, or half of a circumference.
  • (n.) An instrument for measuring angles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The form of the hard palate is similar to a semicircle in the frontal cut.
  • (2) The loudspeakers, 15 deg apart, were arranged in a semicircle (0-270-180 deg, azimuth).
  • (3) In the other pattern, the inducing semicircles were shifted in phase along their diameter and their endpoints were aligned along the contour.
  • (4) Within the whole target volume yD remains nearly constant when irradiated with all 60 beams, whereas considerable changes were found for irradiations with 31 beams coming from a semicircle.
  • (5) In targeting Hindus, Sikhs, Jews and those of Tamil ethnicity, the Tories are once again courting a suburban semicircle of boroughs in north London that traditionally are more likely to vote Conservative.
  • (6) Reducing the salience of the illusory contour, whether by scrambling the contour, or by decreasing the number or the contrast of inducing semicircles, systematically increased discrimination thresholds.
  • (7) Osteoperiosteal corticocancellous grafts are harvested from the iliac wing, then bent into a semicircle with the periosteum on the inside and inserted between the resected vertebral pedicles where they act as a base for further grafting.
  • (8) A useful method of treatment in these cases is the marginal, lamellar keratoplasty, which, according to the type of involvement, can take the shape of a sector, ring, horseshoe, or semicircle.
  • (9) There was a characteristic pattern of activity consisting of small, medium-size, or large distinct granules often distributed in a semicircle in the cytoplasm, but sparing the nucleus of hairy cells.
  • (10) We report a case of relatively diffuse nontransmural infarction demonstrated by a semicircle of 99mTc-PYP activity which significantly overlapped 201Tl uptake on the SPECT study.
  • (11) The algorithm developed here is to reduce interactively a multidimensional symptom space to sectorial regions representing each disease in a semicircle using the modified constellation graph method.
  • (12) This method enables us to classify patients using the angle in the semicircle as a single classifying parameter with an accuracy of about 90%, that is, with little overlapping between disease sectors.
  • (13) Its transitional stage is a curved semicircle having a form of a distended spiral coil; that reflects an uneven growth of the organ in the human embryogenesis.
  • (14) The cupboard door came open, Martensen was dragged out and beaten by a dozen officers standing in a semicircle around him.
  • (15) They are situated in the subserous tela along the anterior and posterior semicircles of the organ.
  • (16) The CGL of the buffalo was convex, swung in a semicircle around the thalamus and was covered by the fibres of the optic tract.
  • (17) The hypothesis is presented that a sheet of internal scar is primarily responsible for raising the skin inside the semicircle.
  • (18) The tube-camera-unit rotates in a semicircle in 5 to 6 seconds around a skull placed in the isocentrum.
  • (19) The posterior semicircle of the sphincter is located higher than the anterior one.
  • (20) The anterior capsular tear has a smooth circular edge at the intersection of the two semicircles of the capsulorhexis, while a triangular flap directed towards the center of the pupil is often formed at 12 o'clock.

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