Pronunciation
How to pronounce “circle”
“circle” is pronounced /sɜːkəl/ — 2 syllables.
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circle
/sɜːkəl/
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2 syllables. Stress the 'circ' part (say it longer and louder) and let the others relax — unstressed vowels often soften to a lazy /ə/.Meaning
ellipse in which the two axes are of equal length; a plane curve generated by one point moving at a constant distance from a fixed point
“he calculated the circumference of the circle”
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