Chris Farley

I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in the middle, and they said, 'Mrs. Farley, the children at school are laughing at Christopher, not with him.' I thought, 'Who cares? As long as they're laughing.

American Comedian

Picture a semicircle as a pizza slice; it helps visualize its shape.

Visual Imagery

Use 'semicircle' to describe objects or formations that approximate a half-circle.

Descriptive Use

A semicircle may refer to something not exactly half a circle, but close in shape.

Not Always Perfect

In mathematics, 'semicircle' is a precise term used in geometry with defined properties.

Academic Language

Remember, 'r' in the semicircle formula stands for the radius of the original circle.

Mathematical Symbolism

Semicircles are not just theoretical; they're encountered in architecture and design.

Real-life Application

In social contexts, a semicircle can encourage group interaction and visibility.

Social Setup

Semicircular designs in architecture can provide both aesthetic and functional benefits.

Architectural Feature

 the images showed mexico's yucatan peninsula and adriana noticed this huge semicircle about a hundred miles across embedded in the landscape and it turns out that afterwards i went to talk to him and say well what do you think that is and they didn't have any idea what it was and i said well have you ever

Lucy in the Sky with...

 semicircle looking up at me with big eyes and I started there was a whiteboard behind me and I started off by writing a one with 22 zeros after it and I said I'd now look the number of stars in the visible universe and this number is so big there's not even a name for it okay and one of these kids shot

ET is (probably) out...

 on a much more sophisticated level. If you said, we've got two squares followed by a triangle, what follows two circles? They could say a semicircle. Just as a triangle is half of a square,

Semicircle

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