[
UK
/sˌɜːkəmfəɹˈɛnʃəl/
]
ADJECTIVE
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lying around or just outside the edges or outskirts
circumferential highways around cities
How To Use circumferential In A Sentence
- The nonconductive rubber layer (12) is formed by winding and layering an electrically nonconductive rubber ribbon (R) on the tire, along the circumferential direction of the tire.
- The nonconductive rubber layer (12) is formed by winding and layering an electrically nonconductive rubber ribbon (R) on the tire, along the circumferential direction of the tire.
- There has been some debate in Memphis about the proper route for Interstate 69—whether it should come through downtown or go around the city in a circumferential loop—but the temperature of that conversation has never approached the fever of the landmark battle that was fought here—across decades, to the Supreme Court and back—over where to put Interstate 40. Interstate 69
- In polyps, medusae, and worms, all longitudinal and circumferential muscles attach to the thin body wall over a wide area.
- Thus the backward expanding marginal folds of the septa provide circumferential anchorage sites that firmly hold the body to the buoyant conch in addition to the few, small adductor muscles.
- According to the authors, this plethysmograph device is "a mercury-in-rubber circumferential strain gauge used to measure erectile responses to sexual stimuli.
- Meanwhile the effect of circumferential curvature of spring, curvature of waveshape and additional deflection are considered also.
- Ablation included wide area circumferential ablation or antral isolation (89%) or pulmonary vein isolation (46%) in all cases. Social Security Reports, News and Informaion
- Nicholas Spykman, the twentieth-century scholar of geopolitics, noted that throughout history, states have engaged in "circumferential and transmarine expansion" to gain control of adjacent seas.
- The opposite hand should gently palpate the breast circumferentially with the fingertips.