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paenga

1. (noun) shelf, the place where anything is laid on one side or across, margin, boundary, site (of buildings, etc.).

Ka tohe ngā kaitango ko ō Ngā Puke-māeroero tonu kē te paenga ki te uru (TTR 1990:113). / The purchasers insisted that the western boundary was the Southern Alps themselves.

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Synonyms: tapa, taha, taitapa, pae, pae

2. (noun) margin, boundary, perimeter, border, edge.

He taro tēnā, he whakahau paenga nō te kūmara (W 1971:39). / That is taro, a shelter around the edge of the kūmara patch.

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Synonyms: āwhiotanga

3. (noun) circumference, perimeter (maths).

Ko te paenga te tawhiti huri noa i tētahi āhua ahu-2, ko te tapeke rānei o ngā tapa katoa (TRP 2010:187). / The circumference/perimeter is the length of the border around a two-dimensional shape, or the sum of all of its sides (TRP 2010:187).

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