circulation
IPA: sˈɝkjʌɫeɪʃʌn
noun
- The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
- The act of passing from place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission.
- Currency; circulating coins; notes, bills, etc., current for coin.
- The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measurement of diffusion
- (strictly) The movement of the blood in the circulatory system, by which it is brought into close relations with the cells and tissues of the body; (loosely) the circulatory system.
- The movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants.
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Examples of "circulation" in Sentences
- Plus it keeps the money in circulation, which is the main thing .
- Most of the ‘money’ in circulation is not physical money, cash and coins.
- I do agree out laws are overly restrictive now but anything to combat the increasing number of guns in circulation is worth trying
- I do agree out laws are overly restrictive now but anything to combat the increasing number of guns in circulation is worth trying.
- Although less than 1/100th of one percent of the value of all U.S. currency in circulation is reported counterfeit, the $100 note is the most widely circulated and most often counterfeited denomination outside the U.S.
- A British newspaper, The Guardian, which has covered the scandal at The News of the World with vigor, followed up on Thursday by reporting that Mr. Langhoff's forays into The Journal newsroom were only a small part of what it referred to as a circulation "scam."
- The stomach digests the food, and separates the nutriment — chyle — from the aliment, which it gives to the blood for the development of the frame; and the blood, which is understood by the term circulation, digests in its passage through the lungs the nutriment — chyle — to give it quantity and quality, and the oxygen from the air to give it vitality.
- This long-established paper has now nearly completed its thirty-second volume, and notwithstanding the severe calamities in which the country is involved, and which tax most heavily in men and money those States in which its circulation is largest, it is nearing the close of another eventful year with its _circulation unimpaired_ -- a matter of special gratification, as showing that its course, in these trying times, has been generally approved, and that it has been more widely useful than ever the past year, by its firm and cordial support of the Government when assailed by a wicked rebellion.
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