Circumference vs Heigth - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between circumference and heigth

is that circumference is (geometry) the line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure while heigth is .

is (obsolete|transitive) to include in a circular space; to bound.

(wikipedia circumference)

(en noun)

(geometry) The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure

(geometry) The length of such a line

(obsolete) The surface of a round or spherical object

* (distance measured around any object ): girth * (distance measured around a race track ): lap

(circumferenc)

(obsolete) To include in a circular space; to bound.

(Sir Thomas Browne)

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