| NOUN | act | circumscription | the act of circumscribing |
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| Meaning | The act of circumscribing. | |
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| Broader | restriction, confinement | The act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary) |
| Spanish | circunscripción | |
| Catalan | circumscripció | |
| Verbs | circumscribe | restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day" |
| circumscribe | draw a line around | |
| circumscribe | to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect | |
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