mete vs circumference

mete and circumference both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mete	Yes	No	No	No
circumference	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, circumference is a hyponym of mete; that is, circumference is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than mete:

Other hyponyms of mete include circuit, fence line, property line, state boundary, state line.

mete (noun)	circumference (noun)
a line that indicates a boundary	the size of something as given by the distance around it
	the length of the closed curve of a circle
	the boundary line encompassing an area or object