Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of circumscribing or the state of being circumscribed.
- noun Something, such as a limit or restriction, that circumscribes.
- noun A circumscribed space or area.
- noun A circular inscription, as on a medallion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A writing around; a circular inscription.
- noun The act of circumscribing or the state of being circumscribed; the act of bounding, settling, or defining; limitation; restraint; confinement: as, the circumscription of arbitrary power.
- noun The exterior line which marks the form of a figure or body; periphery: as, the circumscription of a leaf.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare An inscription written around anything.
- noun The exterior line which determines the form or magnitude of a body; outline; periphery.
- noun The act of limiting, or the state of being limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the act of
circumscribing or the quality of beingcircumscribed - noun anything that
circumscribes or a circumscribed area - noun taxonomy the definition of what does and does not belong to a given
taxon , from a particulartaxonomic viewpoint ortaxonomic system . - noun An
electoral district ; used often in texts treating electoral systems inRomance countries.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of circumscribing
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Although Paillard's writings do not reveal whether he was aware of growing commercial interest in Magude's riverine soils at the time the mission acquired the two concessions, he anticipated a land rush that gathered pace in the circumscription from the 1920s onward.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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McCarthy & Hayes 1969 with the need for a nonmonotonic logic, and sketches the logical ideas of domain circumscription, which is now classified as the simplest case of circumscription.
Logic and Artificial Intelligence Thomason, Richmond 2008
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Accordingly, researchers in logic-based AI have put a lot of effort into developing a variety of non-monotonic reasoning formalisms, such as circumscription (McCarthy 1986), and investigating their application to the frame problem.
The Frame Problem Shanahan, Murray 2004
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BOOK: Bit beyond the unbearable circumscription of Alcestis's life, yes.
In Conclusion, I Hate You All karenhealey 2010
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It's been an uphill battle against the tight circumscription of roles dictated by magazines and fortified by generations of well-meaning mothers trying to help their children make their way in the world.
Chauncey Zalkin: A Better Way To Represent Women Chauncey Zalkin 2011
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Many people seem to think that this search effectively ended in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, when novelists discovered realism, enhanced by modernist experiments in "psychological realism," and thus added these approaches to the earlier emphasis on storytelling, but I think that such an arbitrary circumscription of the novel's further development is effectively a renunciation of the form's own history as an "exploratory" practice.
Experimental Fiction 2010
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It's been an uphill battle against the tight circumscription of roles dictated by magazines and fortified by generations of well-meaning mothers trying to help their children make their way in the world.
Chauncey Zalkin: A Better Way To Represent Women Chauncey Zalkin 2011
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It's been an uphill battle against the tight circumscription of roles dictated by magazines and fortified by generations of well-meaning mothers trying to help their children make their way in the world.
Chauncey Zalkin: A Better Way To Represent Women Chauncey Zalkin 2011
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These prose pieces ultimately acquire a kind of poetic intensity of effect in their bleak circumscription of the character's experience, although they avoid self-consciously "poetic" devices:
Narrative Strategies 2009
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Hijacking astronomical argot from “white dwarves” to “red giants,” Big Bang explodes from this empty center with an elliptic circumscription of parodic pseudo-charts and de-functionalized cosmological notions.
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