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n. The act of circumscribing or the state of being circumscribed.

n. Something, such as a limit or restriction, that circumscribes.

n. A circumscribed space or area.

n. A circular inscription, as on a medallion.

n. the act of circumscribing or the quality of being circumscribed

n. anything that circumscribes or a circumscribed area

n. the definition of what does and does not belong to a given taxon, from a particular taxonomic viewpoint or taxonomic system.

n. An electoral district; used often in texts treating electoral systems in Romance countries.

n. An inscription written around anything.

n. The exterior line which determines the form or magnitude of a body; outline; periphery.

n. The act of limiting, or the state of being limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit.

n. A writing around; a circular inscription.

n. The act of circumscribing or the state of being circumscribed; the act of bounding, settling, or defining; limitation; restraint; confinement: as, the circumscription of arbitrary power.

n. The exterior line which marks the form of a figure or body; periphery: as, the circumscription of a leaf.

n. the act of circumscribing

"McCarthy & Hayes 1969 with the need for a nonmonotonic logic, and sketches the logical ideas of domain circumscription, which is now classified as the simplest case of circumscription."

confinement    restriction   

outline    periphery    bound    confinement    limit   

nasality    swaddle    surcingle    induration    pillion    cincture    durbar    infinitude    entrenching    cantle