Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which circulates: specifically applied to a circulating decimal fraction. See decimal.
  • noun A juggler; a mountebank; one who goes about showing tricks.
  • noun A function of two whole numbers, a variable, q, and a period, a, of the form where aq, etc., are circulating elements, and A0, etc., are numerical coefficients. Also called circulating function.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, circulates.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person or thing that causes something to circulate
  • noun transport A local transit system that provides regular service within a closed loop
  • noun electronics A passive electronic component with three or more ports, in which the ports can be accessed in such a way that when a signal is fed into any port it is transferred to the next port only

Etymologies

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circulate +‎ -or

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