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circumscriptions

circumscriptions is the plural of circumscription.

Meaning of circumscription

Noun

circumscription (countable and uncountable, plural circumscriptions)

  1. The act of circumscribing or the quality of being circumscribed.
  2. Anything that circumscribes or a circumscribed area.
  3. The definition of what does and does not belong to a given taxon, from a particular taxonomic viewpoint or taxonomic system.
    • The circumscription in the APG system of the family Malvaceae includes the former families Bombacaceae, Sterculiaceae and Tiliaceae.
  4. An electoral district; used often in texts treating electoral systems in Romance countries.

Questions about circumscriptions

What is circumscriptions the plural of?
Circumscriptions is the plural of circumscription.

Words near circumscriptions in the dictionary

  1. circumscript
  2. circumscriptable
  3. circumscriptible
  4. circumscription
  5. circumscriptional
  6. circumscriptions
  7. circumscriptive
  8. circumscriptively
  9. circumscriptly
  10. circumsecondary
  11. circumsect

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Adapted from Wiktionary: circumscriptions (page history and authors); circumscription (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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