Definition of circle

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Circle (n.) An instrument of observation, the graduated limb of which consists of an entire circle..

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Center :: Center (n.) A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place..
Wreathe :: Wreathe (n.) To twine or twist about; to surround; to encircle.
Line :: Line (n.) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map..
Tetragon :: Tetragon (n.) An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are distant from each other ninety degrees, or the fourth of a circle..
Circulate :: Circulate (v. i.) To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body..
Fan :: Fan (n.) An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle..
Parquet :: Parquet (n.) A body of seats on the floor of a music hall or theater nearest the orchestra; but commonly applied to the whole lower floor of a theater, from the orchestra to the dress circle; the pit..
House :: House (n.) A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in
Ingirt :: Ingirt (v. t.) To encircle to gird; to engirt.
Purl :: Purl (v. & n.) To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle..
Cyclo- :: Cyclo- () A combining form meaning circular, of a circle or wheel..
Describe :: Describe (v. t.) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle..
Trochosphere :: Trochosphere (n.) A young larval form of many annelids, mollusks, and bryozoans, in which a circle of cilia is developed around the anterior end..
Azimuthal :: Azimuthal (a.) Of or pertaining to the azimuth; in a horizontal circle.
Coil :: Coil (v. t.) To encircle and hold with, or as with, coils..
Sectoral :: Sectoral (a.) Of or pertaining to a sector; as, a sectoral circle..
Circle :: Circle (n.) To move around; to revolve around.
Encircled :: Encircled (imp. & p. p.) of Encircl.
Homography :: Homography (n.) A relation between two figures, such that to any point of the one corresponds one and but one point in the other, and vise versa. Thus, a tangent line rolling on a circle cuts two fixed tangents of the circle in two sets of points that are homographic..
Altitude :: Altitude (n.) The elevation of a point, or star, or other celestial object, above the horizon, measured by the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between such point and the horizon. It is either true or apparent; true when measured from the rational or real horizon, apparent when from the sensible or apparent horizon..
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