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CIRCULARLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does circularly mean?
• CIRCULARLY (adverb)
The adverb CIRCULARLY has 1 sense:
1. in a circular manner
Familiarity information: CIRCULARLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a circular manner
Pertainym:
circular (describing a circle; moving in a circle)
Context examples
Its virion contains linear double-stranded DNA, terminally redundant, and circularly permuted.
(Bacteriophage T4, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
It is the largest of the coliphages and consists of double-stranded DNA, terminally redundant, and circularly permuted.
(Bacteriophage P1, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
We directed him to draw out whatever was at the end of that chain; which appeared to be a globe, half silver, and half of some transparent metal; for, on the transparent side, we saw certain strange figures circularly drawn, and thought we could touch them, till we found our fingers stopped by the lucid substance.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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