different between encircling vs ambulatory

English

encircling (not comparable)

encircling

encircling (plural encirclings)

encirclement
- 1995, Frank Trommler, Thematics Reconsidered: Essays in Honor of Horst S. Daemmrich
  If, however, a series of motifs conjoin in their encirclings of a theme - within and beyond the "subtext" - they enliven the interplay among themselves and with the theme to which they are attracted over the turbulent abyss of time and space.

Latin ambulatorius

ambulatory (comparative more ambulatory, superlative most ambulatory)

Of, relating to, or adapted to walking
ambulatory exercise
- 1642, Henry Wotton, A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villiers
  The princess of whom his majesty […] had an ambulatory view in his travels.
(comparable, medicine) Able to walk about and not bedridden.
an ambulatory patient
(medicine) Performed on or involving an ambulatory patient or an outpatient.
an ambulatory electrocardiogram
ambulatory medical care
Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable.
an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places
- a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, Clerus Domini, or, A discourse of the divine institution, necessity, sacredness, and separation of the office ministerial together with the nature and manner of its power and operation
  The priesthood […] before, was very ambulatory, and dispensed into all families
(law) Not yet legally fixed or settled; alterable.
The dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.

ambulatory (plural ambulatories)

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