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Webster 1913 Edition


Circumposition

Cirˊcum-po-si′tion

,
Noun.
[L.
circumpositio
, fr.
circumponere
, -
positium
, to place around.]
The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed.
Evelyn.

Webster 1828 Edition


Circumposition

CIRCUMPOSITION

,
Noun.
s as z. The act of placing in a circle; or the state of being so placed.

Definition 2024


circumposition

circumposition

English

Noun

circumposition (plural circumpositions)

  1. (chiefly technical) The act of positioning something around something else; or the state of being so positioned
    • 2007, T. Lim et al., “Factors affecting user performance in haptic assembly”, in Virtual Reality, volume 11, number 4:
      Ho and Boothroyd (1979) studied the intraposition of a peg into a hole and the circumposition of a part with a hole onto a peg.
  2. (linguistics) A pair of adpositions that occur on either side of the complement
    • 1982, Ehsan Yar-Shater, Encyclopaedia Iranica, volume 2, page 388:
      Ardestani has some postpositions: da "in," rd "for," and circumpositions: az.... da "from," pes... da "before," etc.
  3. The act of circumposing.

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