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circumaviation

circumaviation noun: the act or process of circumaviating.

circumaviation: the act or process of circumaviating
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Noun

circumaviation (usually uncountable, plural circumaviations)

  1. (uncommon, usually) The act or process of circumaviating.
    • THE CIRCUMAVIATION of the GLOBE / UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE PANAMA-PACIFIC UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION / SAN FRANCISCO / 1915 / TENTATIVE ROUTE OF THE AIRMEN SHOWN ON THE BUTTERFLY MAP INVENTED BY B. J. S. CAHILL, F. R. G. S., CALIFORNIA, U.S.A.1914 May, Flying, volume 3, page 123
    • Travel is broadening. And exciting too, sometimes. In eleven European trips and two circumaviations during the past eleven years in quest of rare books, I have been lucky on two or three occasions. In Edinburgh in 1959 I came across a set of Blaeu's Atlas in eleven large volumes, printed in...1966, Coranto, volumes 4-6, page 24

Forms of circumaviation

pluralcircumaviations

Origin of circumaviation

By surface analysis, circumaviate + -ion, or, by surface analysis, circum- + aviation.

Questions about circumaviation

What does circumaviation mean?
Circumaviation means the act or process of circumaviating.
What part of speech is circumaviation?
Circumaviation is a noun.
What is the plural of circumaviation?
The plural of circumaviation is circumaviations.

Words near circumaviation in the dictionary

  1. circumarene
  2. circumareolar
  3. circumarticular
  4. circumaural
  5. circumaviate
  6. circumaviation
  7. circumaviations
  8. circumaviator
  9. circumaxial
  10. circumaxially
  11. circumaxile

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