to circumscribe

Examples

• All

• In accordance with state regulation, they are painted bright yellow and circumscribed horizontally by a thin, black, double stripe.

  Academic text (2008)

• For example, there's the the out centre, which is the centre of a circumscribed circle.

• I now want to circumscribe it on the image and characterize that, pull out features, identify aspects of that lesion that will help me figure out what it is.

• Motorized block collimators reduce the field to a rectangle that circumscribes the irradiation area.

  Academic text (2002)

• On examination, the patient had a 1.5-cm, solid, non-tender, well-circumscribed, and nonmobile nodule of the left parotid gland.

  Academic text (2004)

• The teacher asked her students to circumscribe the triangle on their worksheets so they could analyze its properties.

• In our geometry class, we learned how to circumscribe a circle around a polygon accurately.

• To illustrate the problem, the architect drew a diagram that circumscribes the proposed building layout with precise lines.

Synonyms

C

to circle

vsto circumscribe

70 2.0

To draw a line around something to show it

draws a surrounding shape that must touch the inner form at all points

D

to describe

vsto circumscribe

• Specialized

33 4.9

To draw the outline of a shape or path on a surface

draws an outer shape that touches the original at all possible points

E

to encircle

vsto circumscribe

33 3.4

To form a circle around a person or thing

creates a surrounding shape that specifically touches the inner object at every point

Antonyms

I

to inscribe

• Specialized

2 7.5

Draw a shape inside another so it touches the outer edge

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology