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• n  a plane figure with the shape of half a circle

• Its tail completed a semicircle.
• Ranged about them in a huge semicircle was a gleaming array of 80 trombonists, as if a parade had lost its way and sought sanctuary.
• First the thin semicircle of defense around Tobruch was surrounded.

• hemicycle

News & Articles

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• Art for the aged
  Seated in a semicircle, five individuals who are part of the Redwood Area Hospital Caring Connections program talk about their favorite gifts; as each talked about those gifts they received, one could see each of them picturing that gift in their mind....
  June 10, 2013 - Redwood Falls Gazette

Quotes

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• Hiram Bingham in Wall Street Journal
  At the beginning of each show actually we used to try to talk to the audience to try and bring them forward to make a semi-circle, because once you made an outside semicircle you can build up an audience. And so my partner Rob Ballard, he would... Eddie Izzard http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Izzard&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFz7V8wjnYA7OlG6V4WetZFASfPVA Los Angeles Times http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-izzard24-2010jan24,0,7339011.story&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEr7sXDOutioH9Rs_8UnZIX-LrbbA Jan 23, 2010 88022 117407 semicircular Dimly, I began to realize that this wall and its adjoining semicircular temple over the cave were as fine as the finest stonework in the world," Bingham wrote in his 1948 book, "Lost City of the Incas." "It fairly took my breath...