Look up: circum-

1. Circum-
   Circum-: Prefix meaning around, surrounding, or encircling. As in circumcision, circumflex, and circumjacent. From the Latin preposition circum meaning round.
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2. Circum-
   Cir'cum- [ Akin to circle , circus .] A Latin preposition, used as a prefix in many English words, and signifying around or about .
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3. circum-
   A circular movement, or a position surrounding the part indicated by the word to which it is joined. ... See: peri-. ... Origin: L. Around ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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4. Circum-
   • A Latin preposition, used as a prefix in many English words, and signifying around or about.
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5. circum-
   Type: Term Pronunciation: ser′kŭm Definitions: 1. A circular movement, or a position surrounding the part indicated by the word to which it is joined.
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6. Circum-Baikal Railway
   The `Circum-Baikal Railway` (, abbreviated "КБЖД") is a historical railway in Irkutsk region of Russia. It runs along the Northern shore of the Southern extremity of the lake from the town of Slyudyanka to the Baikal settlement. Until the middle of the 20th century Circum-Ba...
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7. Circum-Pacific Belt
   (from the article `earthquake`) ...from early catalogs of felt earthquakes and is even more readily discernible in modern seismicity maps, which show instrumentally determined ... ...of large tectonic collages that were accreted around the continental nuclei. Recognized zones are the Altaids, the Tethysides (further subdivided ... Th...
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8. Circum-Pacific Mountain System
   (from the article `mountain`) A nearly continuous chain of volcanoes surrounds the Pacific Ocean. The chain passes along the west coast of North and South America, from the ... In typical examples of circum-Pacific orogenic systems, regional metamorphism of the high-temperature type and large-scale granitic emplacement ... In the cir...
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9. Circum-Pacific Belt
   A zone circling the edge of the Pacific Ocean basin where tectonic subduction causes the formation of volcanoes and trenches. Also called the ring of fire.
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10. Circum-Superior Belt
    from northeastern Manitoba through northwestern Ontario, southern Nunavut to northern Quebec. Igneous rocks of the Circum-Superior Belt are mafic-ultramafic in composition, deposited in the Labrador Trough near Ungava Bay, the Cape Smith Belt near the southern shore of Hudson Strait and along the ea...
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11. Circumagitate
    Cir`cum·ag'i·tate transitive verb [ Prefix circum + agitate .] To agitate on all sides. Jer. Taylor.
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12. Circumagitate
    • (v. t.) To agitate on all sides.
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13. circumagitate
    circumagitate To agitate on all sides.
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14. circumagitation
    circumagitation Moving or stirring around or about.
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15. circumalveolar fixation
    Stabilization of a fracture segment or surgical splint by wire passed through and around the dental alveolar process. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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16. circumalveolar fixation
    Type: Term Definitions: 1. stabilization of a fracture segment or surgical splint by wire passed through and around the dental alveolar process.
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17. Circumambage
    Cir`cum·am'bage noun [ Prefix circum- + ambage , obsolete sing. of ambages .] A roundabout or indirect course; indirectness. [ Obsolete] S. Richardson.
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18. Circumambage
    • (n.) A roundabout or indirect course; indirectness.
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19. circumambience
    circumambience, circumambiency 1. Being encompassed on all sides; surrounded. 2. Being enclosed or being on all sides.
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20. Circumambiency
    Cir`cum·am'bi·en·cy noun The act of surrounding or encompassing. Sir T. Browne.
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21. Circumambiency
    • (n.) The act of surrounding or encompassing.
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22. circumambiency
    circumambience, circumambiency 1. Being encompassed on all sides; surrounded. 2. Being enclosed or being on all sides.
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23. Circumambient
    Cir`cum·am'bi·ent adjective [ Prefix circum- + ambient .] Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing. 'The circumambient heaven .' J. Armstrong.
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24. Circumambient
    • (a.) Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing.
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25. circumambient
    circumambient, circumambiently 1. Surrounding; to encircle something completely. 2. An area or border around a specific thing or place. Circumambient comes from Latin circum, 'around, round about, on all sides' plus ambire, 'to go around, to surround', from amb-, 'on both sides, around' plus ire, 'to go'.
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