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circumduction
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun circumduction has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
circumduction, n. [L. circumductio.].
- A leading about; circumlocution. Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- An annulling; cancellation. Ayliffe. [1913 Webster]
- The rotation of a limb round an imaginary axis, so as to describe a conical surface. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
circumduction
Obliteration
N obliteration, erasure, rasure, cancel, cancellation, circumduction, deletion, blot, tabula rasa, effacement, extinction, obliterated, out of print, printless, leaving no trace, intestate, unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten, Int, dele, out with it!, delenda est Carthago.
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