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Meaning
Verb
●
To
draw a line
around; to encircle.
●
To
limit
narrowly
; to restrict.
●
In Geometry:
To
draw
the
smallest
circle
or higher-dimensional
sphere
that has (a
polyhedron
,
polygon
, etc.) in its interior.
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Origin
circumscribe
English
circumscribo
Latin
Sourced from
Etym
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