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recirc

recirc is the clipping of recirculation.

recirc is the clipping of recirculate.

Meaning of recirculation

Noun

recirculation (countable and uncountable, plural recirculations)

  1. The act or process of recirculating.
    • One theme of the mix is the international play of loans, snatches, repurposings, retroengineerings and recirculations of beats, motifs, techniques, and melodies between musicians in the diaspora and beyond.2011, Jonathan Harris, Globalization and Contemporary Art, page 229

Meaning of recirculate

Verb

recirculate (third-person singular simple present recirculates, present participle recirculating, simple past and past participle recirculated)

  1. To circulate again.
    • Ferry says he’s recirculating bones that would otherwise collect dust in someone’s basement and offering valuable services to people who may otherwise never interact with real human bones.2021 October 10, Caroline Anders, “A TikTok bone salesman’s wall of spines reignites ethical debate over selling human remains”, in The Washington Post
    Synonyms:
    recirc

Forms of recirc

Noun
pluralrecircs
Verb
third-person singular presentrecircs
present participlerecircing
past participlerecirced
pastrecirced

Questions about recirc

What is recirc the clipping of?
Recirc is the clipping of recirculation.

Words near recirc in the dictionary

  1. reciproque
  2. reciprosexual
  3. reciprosexuals
  4. recipé
  5. recipés
  6. recirc
  7. recirced
  8. recircing
  9. recircle
  10. recircled
  11. recircles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recirc (page history and authors); recirculation (page history and authors); recirculate (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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