Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word CIRCULAR

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Definitions of CIRCULAR

1. Of or relating to a circle.
2. In the shape of, or moving in a circle.
3. Circuitous or roundabout.
4. Referring back to itself, so as to prevent computation or comprehension; infinitely recursive.
5. Distributed to a large number of persons.
6. A shuttle bus with a circular route.
7. To distribute circulars to or at.
8. To extend in a circular direction.
9. An advertisement, directive or notice intended for mass circulation.
10. (obsolete) Perfect; complete.
11. (archaic) Adhering to a fixed circle of legends; cyclic; hence, mean; inferior.
12. Short for circular letter.
13. Short for circular file.
14. (dated) A sleeveless cloak cut from a circular pattern.

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Examples of Using CIRCULAR in a Sentence

• 475 – Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysite christological position.
• The Doya trace their descent matrilineally, marry their cross cousins, and embalm the deceased who are then placed in a foetal position in a circular sarcophagus above the ground.
• The membrane is typically circular, in modern forms usually made of plastic, originally of animal skin.
• Players take turns shooting discs across the circular playing surface, trying to land their discs in the higher-scoring regions of the board, particularly the recessed centre hole of 20 points, while also attempting to knock opposing discs off the board, and into the 'ditch'.
• Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called rocks, across the ice curling sheet toward the house, a circular target marked on the ice.
• Definitions may fail to have merit, because they are overly broad, or incomprehensible; or they use obscure or ambiguous language, contain mutually exclusive parts, or (perhaps most commonly) are circular.
• This means that the lunar hemisphere facing Earth—the near side—is completely sunlit and appears as an approximately circular disk.
• If the network is one-dimensional, and the chain of nodes is connected to form a circular loop, the resulting topology is known as a ring.
• These laws replaced circular orbits and epicycles in the heliocentric theory of Nicolaus Copernicus with elliptical orbits and explained how planetary velocities vary.
• Therefore it can be seen that the circular red arrow in the diagram indicates the combined effects of precession and nutation, while nutation in the absence of precession would only change the tilt from vertical (second Euler angle).
• They are most commonly found as small circular, double-stranded DNA molecules in bacteria; however, plasmids are sometimes present in archaea and eukaryotic organisms.
• They also represent the interaction states of two polarization filters for horizontal/vertical polarization, 45 degree polarization (right/left), and circular polarization (right/left).
• In user interface design, a pie menu or radial menu is a circular context menu where selection depends on direction.
• In 1988, the earliest known official or large-scale celebration of Pi Day was organized by Larry Shaw at the San Francisco Exploratorium, where Shaw worked as a physicist, with staff and public marching around one of its circular spaces, then consuming fruit pies.
• Examples include the spin of the electron in which the two levels can be taken as spin up and spin down; or the polarization of a single photon in which the two spin states (left-handed and the right-handed circular polarization) can also be measured as horizontal and vertical linear polarization.
• This peculiarity allows them to walk on steep hillsides, although only in one direction; when lured or chased into the plain, they are trapped in an endless circular path.
• Slide rules exist in a diverse range of styles and generally appear in a linear, circular or cylindrical form.
• There are four or five accepted and cognate meanings of the term spandrel in architectural and art history, mostly relating to the space between a curved figure and a rectangular boundary – such as the space between the curve of an arch and a rectilinear bounding moulding, or the wallspace bounded by adjacent arches in an arcade and the stringcourse or moulding above them, or the space between the central medallion of a carpet and its rectangular corners, or the space between the circular face of a clock and the corners of the square revealed by its hood.
• In mathematics, the trigonometric functions (also called circular functions, angle functions or goniometric functions) are real functions which relate an angle of a right-angled triangle to ratios of two side lengths.
• Modern velodromes feature steeply banked oval tracks, consisting of two 180-degree circular bends connected by two straights.

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