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Definition of Circumferential
1. Adjective. Lying around or just outside the edges or outskirts. "Circumferential highways around cities"
Definition of Circumferential
1. a. Pertaining to the circumference; encompassing; encircling; circuitous.
Definition of Circumferential
1. Adjective. (not comparable) of or pertaining to a circumference ¹
2. Adjective. circuitous, indirect or roundabout ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Circumferential
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Circumferential
Literary usage of Circumferential
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1841)
"white at its commencement, but becoming yellowish, and yellowish pink upon the
last volution ; posterior circumferential band indistinct, olive-brown ..."
2. Marine Boiler Management and Construction: Being a Treatise on Boiler by Johann Phillip Edmond Charles Stromeyer (1893)
"If '2 To be added if the holes are fair and good in the circumferential ...
U -25 To be added when the circumferential seams are lap and the strakes of ..."
3. American Machinists' Handbook and Dictionary of Shop Terms: A Reference Book by Fred Herbert Colvin, Frank Arthur Stanley (1914)
"TABLES OF circumferential SPEEDS THE tables on pages 432-435 which give
circumferential speeds, can be used for obtaining gear and belt speeds and the speed ..."
4. A Treatise on Toothed Gearing: Containing Complete Instructions for by John Howard Cromwell (1883)
"THE present tendency among mechanical men in favor of the use of the diametral
instead of the older and more widely known circumferential pitch, ..."
5. Practical Calculation of Dynamo-electric Machines: a manual for electrical by Alfred Eugene Wiener (1901)
"... the temperature-rise at same circumferential current density for high-speed
and low-speed dynamos (columns 3 and 5, or 4 and 6, respectively, ..."
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