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circumferencing

circumferencing is the present participle and gerund of circumference.

Meaning of circumference

Verb

circumference (third-person singular simple present circumferences, present participle circumferencing, simple past and past participle circumferenced)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To include in a circular space; to bound.
    • Nor is the vigour of this great body included only in itself, or circumferenced by its surface1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

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Questions about circumferencing

What is circumferencing the present participle and gerund of?
Circumferencing is the present participle and gerund of circumference.

Words near circumferencing in the dictionary

  1. circumfered
  2. circumference
  3. circumferenced
  4. circumferenceless
  5. circumferences
  6. circumferencing
  7. circumferential
  8. circumferentially
  9. circumferentor
  10. circumferentors
  11. circumfering

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