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Any definite quantity, or aggregate of quantities or magnitudes taken as one, or for which 1 is made to stand in calculation; thus, in a table of natural sines, the radius of the circle is regarded as unity.
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An instrument of observation, the graduated limb of which consists of an entire circle.
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A circle either of leaves or flowers about a stem at the same node; a whorl.
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To encompass, as by a circle; to surround; to inclose; to encircle.
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A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle, and to draw in towards the center bodies subject to its action; the form assumed by a fluid in such motion; a whirlpool; an eddy.
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A young larval form of many annelids, mollusks, and bryozoans, in which a circle of cilia is developed around the anterior end.
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A little circle; esp., an ornament for the person, having the form of a circle; that which encircles, as a ring, a bracelet, or a headband.
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Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to Vorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellidae. They have a more or less bell-shaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched.
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A vertical line, plane, or circle.
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To mark or cut the edge or border of into segments of circles, like the edge or surface of a scallop shell. See Scallop, n., 2.
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Not symmetrical; being without symmetry, as the parts of a flower when similar parts are of different size and shape, or when the parts of successive circles differ in number. See Symmetry.
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An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are three octants, or three eighths of a circle, that is, 135 degrees, distant from each other.
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Any one of several species of actinians belonging to the genus Cerianthus. These animals have a long, smooth body tapering to the base, and two separate circles of tentacles around the mouth. They form a tough, flexible, feltlike tube with a smooth internal lining, in which they dwell, whence the name.
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A circumference; a circle; a ring.
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Having the form of a circle; round.
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One of the two small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the equator, at a distance of 23ยก 28/, and parallel to it, which the sun just reaches at its greatest declination north or south, and from which it turns again toward the equator, the northern circle being called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn, from the names of the two signs at which they touch the ecliptic.
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To move circularly; to form a circle; to circulate.
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Having the edge or border cut or marked with segments of circles. See Scallop, n., 2.
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One of series of segments of circles joined at their extremities, forming a border like the edge or surface of a scallop shell.
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