circular
IPA: sˈɝkjʌɫɝ
noun
- An advertisement, directive or notice intended for mass circulation.
- (dated) A sleeveless cloak cut from a circular pattern.
- A shuttle bus with a circular route.
- Short for circular letter. [A freely distributed letter or pamphlet on routine matters.]
- Short for circular file. [(idiomatic, humorous) The trash container; the wastebasket.]
verb
- To distribute circulars to or at.
- To extend in a circular direction.
adjective
- Of or relating to a circle.
- In the shape of, or moving in a circle.
- Circuitous or roundabout.
- Referring back to itself, so as to prevent computation or comprehension; infinitely recursive.
- Distributed to a large number of persons.
- (obsolete) Perfect; complete.
- (archaic) Adhering to a fixed circle of legends; cyclic; hence, mean; inferior.
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Examples of "circular" in Sentences
- This is circular logic and results in what I call circular injustice.
- Consider two planets of mass m and 2m, orbiting the same star in circular orbits.
- Valuation is intrinsically an exercise in circular reasoning, which is why appraisers rely on comparavle sales.
- Frank DiBello, the chief executive of Space Florida—a state-fundedn economic-development agency that normally would be a White House ally—lamented what he called a "circular and endless debate" about NASA's future.
- Circular observation in pictures whose structure was apparently not circular leads to the consideration of _circular composition, _ or that class of pictures where the evident intention is to compose under the influence of circular observation — where the circle expresses the first thought in the composition.
- U.S. official stress that they believe this is what they call circular reporting, when we at CNN say security has been increased at the Golden Gate Bridge, in the next few days you hear conversations in this group that is closely monitored by the intelligence community about security at the Golden Gate Bridge.
- Circular composition traceable in what has been first conceived as pyramidal or rectangular, circular composition as the first intention, expressed either on a vertical plane or in perspective, i.e., circular or elliptical — and composition _made circular_ not by any arrangement of parts, but by sacrifice and elimination of edges and corners are the three forms of composition which produce circular observation.
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