Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name proposed by C. S. Peirce for so much of any self-returning change as brings about the original state of those characters which are not altered by the reversal of a difference, while it does not bring about the return of such characters as are so altered. A half-revolution is a geometrical circuition. See
bicircuition . - noun The act of going round.
- noun Circumlocution.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act of going round; circumlocution.
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- noun archaic The act of going round; a
circuit , anencircling .
Etymologies
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From Latin circuitiōnem, from circuīre. Compare circuit.
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a piece of circuition needed for variety of development, and, of necessity, to eventuate in forms fresher, more
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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