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• In a Venn diagram, an atom is depicted as an area circumscribed by lines but not cut by any line.From the entry atom
• The wheres, whens and why-fores of how they are actually used is quite circumscribed.1991 February 4, Michael Bronski, “Are We Having A War, Or What?”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 28, page 7. From the entry whyfor
• By forcing their suitors to be earnest or sincere, the women psychodramatically circumscribe them.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae. From the entry psychodramatically
• Together, these strategies circumscribe the universe of debiasing procedures.1981, Baruch Fischoff, “Debiasing”, in D. Kahneman, P. Slovic, A. Tversky, editors, Judgement under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases…. From the entry debias
• Difficulty is to be expected with very opaque capsules, especially when they present a large, white, dense, circumscribed opaque area.1911, Casey Albert Wood, “Chapter VIII: Extraction of the senile type of cataract”, in Casey Albert Wood, editor, A System of Ophthalmic…. From the entry vectis
• An ovalish circumscribed opacity with blurred margins is seen in an upper position behind the areola, with the same density as the surrounding fibroglandular tissue.2005, Vincenzo Lattanzio, Giovanni Simonetti, Guide to Interpreting, Recording, and Auditing Mammograhic Images, page 42. From the entry ovalish
• Specific impairments of mentalizing in both developmental and acquired disorders suggest that this ability depends on a dedicated and circumscribed brain system.1999 November 26, Chris D. Frith, Uta Frith, “Interacting Minds--A Biological Basis”, in Science, volume 286, number 5445, →DOI, pages…. From the entry mentalize
• Not so circumscribed in expedient for the reduction of surplus wealth were those lairds of the lariat who had womenfolk to their name.c. 1900, O. Henry, A Call Loan. From the entry lariat
• This, of course, was not about the State, but it was certainly an invasion: black bodies acting out in a public domain circumscribed by a racist culture.1999, Devon Carbado, Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Reader, page 87. From the entry body
• Thus, although opponents of the private bank proposal accused its supporters of undermining the colony's sovereignty, the antibank cohort themselves viewed the provincial government's power as circumscribed.1998, Margaret Ellen Newell, From Dependency to Independence, page 153. From the entry antibank
• But these are more circumscribed than is often thought, and not to recognize their limits is to accept an undue burden of primitiveness and over-genderization in theology.1991, Robert C. Neville, Behind the Masks of God: An Essay Toward Comparative Theology, →ISBN. From the entry over-genderization
• The memory for matters that they think about constantly, or, as I might term it, the circumscribed memory, is very acute, as it is in the paranoiæ.1909, Transactions of the Eighth Session, Australasian Medical Congress, page 342. From the entry paranoiæ
• To this extent, Artaud's work may be viewed as an attempt to de-bourgeoisify the early twentieth-century theatre: to render it less cerebral, less literary, less refined, less circumscribed, more visceral.2003, Bruce Boehrer, “The Privy and Its Double: Scatology and Satire in Shakespeare's Theatre”, in Richard Dutton, Jean E. Howard…. From the entry de-bourgeoisify

Meaning of circumscribe

1. verb To draw a line around; to encircle.
2. verb To limit narrowly; to restrict.
3. verb To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.

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How do you use circumscribe in a sentence?

Circumscribe is used as a verb. For example: “In a Venn diagram, an atom is depicted as an area circumscribed by lines but not cut by any line.”

What is a short sentence with circumscribe?

“Together, these strategies circumscribe the universe of debiasing procedures.”

What does circumscribe mean?

Circumscribe means to draw a line around; to encircle.