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  • English Word Circumference Definition A circle; anything circular.
  • English Word Circumference Definition The external surface of a sphere, or of any orbicular body.
  • English Word Circumference Definition To include in a circular space; to bound.
  • English Word Circumferential Definition Pertaining to the circumference; encompassing; encircling; circuitous.
  • English Word Circumferentially Definition So as to surround or encircle.
  • English Word Circumferentor Definition A surveying instrument, for taking horizontal angles and bearings; a surveyor's compass. It consists of a compass whose needle plays over a circle graduated to 360¡, and of a horizontal brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow slits for sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint.
  • English Word Circumferentor Definition A graduated wheel for measuring tires; a tire circle.
  • English Word Circumflant Definition Blowing around.
  • English Word Circumflect Definition To bend around.
  • English Word Circumflect Definition To mark with the circumflex accent, as a vowel.
  • English Word Circumflected Definition of Circumflect
  • English Word Circumflecting Definition of Circumflect
  • English Word Circumflection Definition See Circumflexion.
  • English Word Circumflex Definition A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable.
  • English Word Circumflex Definition A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus [~ or /]; and in Latin and some other languages, denoting a long and contracted syllable, marked [/ or ^]. See Accent, n., 2.
  • English Word Circumflex Definition To mark or pronounce with a circumflex.
  • English Word Circumflex Definition Moving or turning round; circuitous.
  • English Word Circumflex Definition Curved circularly; -- applied to several arteries of the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of the shoulder, and to other parts.
  • English Word Circumflexed Definition of Circumflex
  • English Word Circumflexing Definition of Circumflex
  • English Word Circumflexion Definition The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form.
  • English Word Circumflexion Definition A winding about; a turning; a circuity; a fold.
  • English Word Circumfluence Definition A flowing round on all sides; an inclosing with a fluid.
  • English Word Circumfluent Definition Alt. of Circumfluous
  • English Word Circumfluous Definition Flowing round; surrounding in the manner of a fluid.
  • English Word Circumforanean Definition Alt. of Circumforaneous
  • English Word Circumforaneous Definition Going about or abroad; walking or wandering from house to house.
  • English Word Circumfulgent Definition Shining around or about.
  • English Word Circumfuse Definition To pour round; to spread round.
  • English Word Circumfusile Definition Capable of being poured or spread round.