Basically, perimeter and circumference mean the same thing. They are the measurement of a boundary, be it a large field or a small circle drawn on a piece of paper. Usually, the measurement is either in yards, feet and inches (showing my age here!) or, nowadays, due to metrification, in metres and centimetres.
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Both are linear measures and may be measured in millimetres, centimetres, metres, kilometres etc, depending on the size of the object being measured.
The perimeter of a circle is its circumference
When the shape is a circle, then the perimeter is called"circumference".The circumference IS the perimeter of a circle.
The perimeter of a circle is its circumference.
Circumference is the perimeter of a circle.
The length of the perimeter is the circumference. The perimeter itself is the boundary between the interior and exterior of the circle. The perimeter of a circle is called the circumference