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circle
English
Etymology
From Middle English circle, cercle, from Old French cercle and Latin circulus, diminutive of Latin circus (“circle, circus”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (kírkos, “circle, ring”), related to Old English hring (“ring”). Compare also Old English ?ircul (“circle, zodiac”), which came from the same Latin source.
Pronunciation
- enPR: sûr?-k?l, IPA(key): /?s??k?l/
- (UK) IPA(key): [?s??.k??]
- (US) IPA(key): [?s?.k??]
- Rhymes: -??(?)k?l
- Homophone: cercal
- Hyphenation: cir?cle
Noun
circle (plural circles)
- (geometry) A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from a given point (center).
- Synonyms: (not in mathematical use) coil, (not in mathematical use) ring, (not in mathematical use) loop
- A two-dimensional geometric figure, a disk, consisting of the set of all those points of a plane at a distance less than or equal to a fixed distance (radius) from a given point.
- Synonyms: disc, (in mathematical and general use) disk, (not in mathematical use; UK & Commonwealth only) round
- Any shape, curve or arrangement of objects that approximates to or resembles the geometric figures.
- Children, please join hands and form a circle.
- Any thin three-dimensional equivalent of the geometric figures.
- A curve that more or less forms part or all of a circle.
- A specific group of persons; especially one who shares a common interest.
- Synonyms: bunch, gang, group
- At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
- “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, […], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- The Rabbit could not claim to be a model of anything, for he didn’t know that real rabbits existed; he thought they were all stuffed with sawdust like himself, and he understood that sawdust was quite out-of-date and should never be mentioned in modern circles.
- The orbit of an astronomical body.
- (cricket) A line comprising two semicircles of 30 yards radius centred on the wickets joined by straight lines parallel to the pitch used to enforce field restrictions in a one-day match.
- (Wicca) A ritual circle that is cast three times deosil and closes three times widdershins either in the air with a wand or literally with stones or other items used for worship.
- (South Africa) A traffic circle or roundabout.
- (obsolete) Compass; circuit; enclosure.
- (astronomy) An instrument of observation, whose graduated limb consists of an entire circle. When fixed to a wall in an observatory, it is called a mural circle; when mounted with a telescope on an axis and in Y's, in the plane of the meridian, a meridian or transit circle; when involving the principle of reflection, like the sextant, a reflecting circle; and when that of repeating an angle several times continuously along the graduated limb, a repeating circle.
- A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.
- Thus in a circle runs the peasant's pain.
- (logic) A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning.
- 1661, Joseph Glanvill, The Vanity of Dogmatizing
- That heavy bodies descend by gravity; and, again, that gravity is a quality whereby a heavy body descends, is an impertinent circle and teaches nothing.
- 1661, Joseph Glanvill, The Vanity of Dogmatizing
- Indirect form of words; circumlocution.
- 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist
- Has he given the lie, / In circle, or oblique, or semicircle.
- 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist
- A territorial division or district.
- (in the plural) A bagginess of the skin below the eyes from lack of sleep.
Derived terms
Related terms
- circular
- circulate
- circus
Descendants
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: sirkil
Translations
Verb
circle (third-person singular simple present circles, present participle circling, simple past and past participle circled)
- (transitive) To travel around along a curved path.
- The wolves circled the herd of deer.
- (transitive) To surround.
- A high fence circles the enclosure.
- 1699, William Dampier, Voyages and Descriptions
- Their heads are circled with a short turban.
- 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Dungeon
- So he lies, circled with evil.
- (transitive) To place or mark a circle around.
- Circle the jobs that you are interested in applying for.
- (intransitive) To travel in circles.
- Vultures circled overhead.
Derived terms
- circle the drain
Translations
Anagrams
- cleric
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spectrum
English
Etymology
From Latin spectrum (“appearance, image, apparition”), from speci? (“look at, view”). Doublet of specter. See also scope.
Pronunciation
- (Canada, UK) IPA(key): /?spekt??m/
- (US) IPA(key): /?sp?kt(?)??m/
- Rhymes: -?kt??m
Noun
spectrum (plural spectra or spectrums)
- A range; a continuous, infinite, one-dimensional set, possibly bounded by extremes.
- Specifically, a range of colours representing light (electromagnetic radiation) of contiguous frequencies; hence electromagnetic spectrum, visible spectrum, ultraviolet spectrum, etc. [from later 17th c.]
- 2010 October 30, Jim Giles, Jammed!, in New Scientist,
- Current 3G technologies can send roughly 1 bit of data - a one or a zero - per second over each 1 Hz of spectrum that the operator owns.
- 2010 October 30, Jim Giles, Jammed!, in New Scientist,
- (psychology, education) The autism spectrum.
- (chemistry) The pattern of absorption or emission of radiation produced by a substance when subjected to energy (radiation, heat, electricity, etc.).
- (mathematics, linear algebra) The set of eigenvalues of a matrix.
- (mathematics, functional analysis) Of a bounded linear operator A, the set of scalar values ? such that the operator A—?I, where I denotes the identity operator, does not have a bounded inverse; intended as a generalisation of the linear algebra sense.
- (abstract algebra, algebraic geometry) The set, denoted Spec(R), of all prime ideals of a given ring R, commonly augmented with a Zariski topology and considered as a topological space.
- Hyponym: Stone space
- (obsolete) Specter, apparition. [from early 17th c.]
- The image of something seen that persists after the eyes are closed.
Derived terms
- cepstrum
- light spectrum
- spectro-
- spectrum disorder
- political spectrum
Related terms
- spectral
Translations
Anagrams
- cepstrum, crumpets
Dutch
Etymology
From Latin spectrum (“appearance, image, apparition”), from speci? (“look at, view”).
Pronunciation
Noun
spectrum n (plural spectrums or spectra, diminutive spectrumpje n)
- spectrum
Derived terms
- spectraal
- spectroscoop
Latin
Etymology
From spec(i?) (“look at, behold”) +? -trum. Confer with speculum.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?spek.trum/, [?s?p?kt?????]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?spek.trum/, [?sp?kt??um]
Noun
spectrum n (genitive spectr?); second declension
- appearance, image
- apparition, specter
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Related terms
- speci?
- specti?
- spect?
Descendants
- Catalan: espectre
- Dutch: spectrum
- English: spectre, specter; spectrum
- French: spectre
- German: Spektrum
- Irish: speictream
- Italian: spettro
- Portuguese: espectro
- Romanian: spectru
- Russian: ?????? (spektr)
- Spanish: espectro
- Swedish: spektrum
References
- spectrum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- spectrum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- spectrum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- spectrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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