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Orthodromy :: Orthodromy (n.) The act or art of sailing on a great circle.

Environ :: Environ (v. t.) To surround; to encompass; to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or envelop.

Semicircle :: Semicircle (n.) A body in the form of half of a circle, or half of a circumference..

Epicycloid :: Epicycloid (n.) A curve traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the convex side of a fixed circle.

Gird :: Gird (v. t.) To surround; to encircle, or encompass..

Purl :: Purl (n.) A circle made by the notion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.

Revolution :: Revolution (n.) The motion of a point, line, or surface about a point or line as its center or axis, in such a manner that a moving point generates a curve, a moving line a surface (called a surface of revolution), and a moving surface a solid (called a solid of revolution); as, the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of its sides generates a cone; the revolution of a semicircle about the diameter generates a sphere..

Duledge :: Duledge (n.) One of the dowels joining the ends of the fellies which form the circle of the wheel of a gun carriage.

Ray :: Ray (n.) One of a number of lines or parts diverging from a common point or center, like the radii of a circle; as, a star of six rays..

Symmetrical :: Symmetrical (a.) Having an equal number of parts in the successive circles of floral organs; -- said of flowers.

Rigol :: Rigol (n.) A circle; hence, a diadem..

Equant :: Equant (n.) A circle around whose circumference a planet or the center of ann epicycle was conceived to move uniformly; -- called also eccentric equator.

Flanch :: Flanch (n.) A bearing consisting of a segment of a circle encroaching on the field from the side.

Boultin :: Boultin (n.) A molding, the convexity of which is one fourth of a circle, being a member just below the abacus in the Tuscan and Roman Doric capital; a torus; an ovolo..

Sweep :: Sweep (n.) The mold of a ship when she begins to curve in at the rungheads; any part of a ship shaped in a segment of a circle.

Interosculant :: Interosculant (a.) Mutually touching or intersecting; as, interosculant circles..

Belted :: Belted (a.) Marked with a band or circle; as, a belted stalk..

Circlet :: Circlet (n.) A circular piece of wood put under a dish at table.

Almacantar :: Almacantar (n.) A recently invented instrument for observing the heavenly bodies as they cross a given almacantar circle. See Almucantar.

Emblem :: Emblem (n.) A visible sign of an idea; an object, or the figure of an object, symbolizing and suggesting another object, or an idea, by natural aptness or by association; a figurative representation; a typical designation; a symbol; as, a balance is an emblem of justice; a scepter, the emblem of sovereignty or power; a circle, the emblem of eternity..

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