(a.) Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing.
Example Sentences:
(1) It had infiltrated the circumambient endometrium slightly.
Circumnavigate
Definition:
(v. t.) To sail completely round.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even as Germany and Austria have moved in recent days to streamline the movement of refugees from Hungary towards western Europe, people smugglers have found brisk business in helping desperate refugees circumnavigate a European asylum system that seems as weighted against them as ever.
(2) So there’s a bunch of design work that we can do and is very, very important.” Circular economy: the top five stories of 2014 Read more Ellen MacArthur, who broke the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe and is now a leading activist in creating a circular economy, also said changes in all sectors of society are needed.
(3) Unless there are plans to circumnavigate the statute book, then a separate hybrid bill will have to be introduced."
(4) Nuclear circumnavigation generally proceeded in one direction, could be in similar or opposite direction in neighboring myelinating SCs on the same axon, and was not proportional to the number of major dense lines within the myelin sheath.
(5) O'Brien today criticised the INM board for "considering refinancing proposals which would be highly dilutive" and accused the company of attempting to "circumnavigate" shareholders.
(6) The Mount Pleasant depot, so big it takes a good 10 minutes to circumnavigate on foot, is itself a symbol of the assets potentially on offer to purchasers of the Royal Mail .
(7) These include (a) Gelfilm (no-graft) induction of tympanic membrane regrowth; (b) the use of tragal cartilage and perichondrium in columellization and in Type III neomyringostapediopexy; (c) the use of laboratory-prefabricated ossicular homografts to correct malleal-capitulum and malleal-footplate discontinuities more precisely; and (d) the circumferential approach (circumnavigation of patient's head) and anterior position of the surgeon in order to visualize the sinus tympani, retropyramidal, and retrofacial areas, obviating extensive posterior tympanotomy bone dissections.
(8) Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian MacArthur, who broke the record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe in 2005, says fundamental reform is needed.
(9) She said: "Legislation is required to prevent abortion providers establishing subsidiary counselling organisations in order to circumnavigate the new requirement.
(10) Yet, with the players having returned for pre-season preparations earlier this week, Brighton have now circumnavigated that issue by securing García, who departed Tel Aviv at the end of last season citing personal reasons, in the newly created brief.
(11) Four human subjects each moved his nondominant arm between an upper target and a lower target, while circumnavigating a barrier that extended outward from the vertical plane of the targets.
(12) The island can be reached from the mainland on the Ilala passenger ferry, which passes through on its weekly circumnavigation of the lakeshore.
(13) On Thursday he sounded hoarse and shrill as he poured scorn on opponents for the umpteenth time, causing much amusement among Twitter users merrily circumnavigating the ban .
(14) For an exciting and downright hair-raising trip try circumnavigating the island on an offshore powerboat.
(15) Although Actel makes a big claim that their devices are extremely secure because there is no physical path for the configuration data to be read to the outside world, a back door was added with a special key to circumnavigate all the security set by themselves or one of their users."
(16) Beaumont held the world record for the fastest circumnavigation of the globe by bicycle, covering 18,296 miles in 194 days 17 hours.
(17) As to Georg Forster a graduation "praemii loco" is concerned in recognition of the excellent achievements in natural sciences of the scientist who took part in the second circumnavigation of the globe by Cook.
(18) That leaves Liam Fox to play Sir Francis Drake, looking for domestic glory in global circumnavigation but seen from abroad as a pirate.
(19) This image of the one guy circumnavigating the globe in a ludicrous soundtrack of success.
(20) Then it's on to Schinoussa, famed for its beaches, and Iraklia, the most mountainous of the Small Cyclades, for a circumnavigation of the island, looking out for dolphins and monk seals on the way.