ENCIRCLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does encircling mean? 

• ENCIRCLING (adjective)
  The adjective ENCIRCLING has 1 sense:

1. being all around the edges; enclosing

  Familiarity information: ENCIRCLING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENCIRCLING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being all around the edges; enclosing

Synonyms:

encircling; skirting

Context example:

the room's skirting board needs painting

Similar:

peripheral (on or near an edge or constituting an outer boundary; the outer area)

 Context examples 

Tissues that contain neurons and supporting cells that form the covers encircling nerves, nerve fibers, and axons.

(Nerve Tissue and Nerve Sheaths, NCI Thesaurus)

A protective cover encircling a nerve, nerve fiber or axon.

(Nerve Sheath, NCI Thesaurus)

Hubble revealed a pancake-shaped disk of gas encircling the star.

(Hubble Observes One-of-a-Kind Star Nicknamed 'Nasty', NASA)

A morphologic finding that refers to the accumulation of glial cells encircling neurons and/or vessels in a tissue specimen.

(Perineuronal and/or Perivascular Satellitosis, NCI Thesaurus)

In Europe, large nets and harpoons are being developed to catch debris encircling our planet.

(Australia Developing Lasers to Track, Destroy Space Junk, VOA)

The Red Planet has been observed shrouded by planet-encircling dust nine times since 1924, with the five most recent planetary storms detected in 1977, 1982, 1994, 2001 and 2007.

(Study Predicts Next Global Dust Storm on Mars, NASA)

Dictating the movements of these particles, Earth’s magnetic environment traps electrons and ions in concentric belts encircling the planet.

(FIREBIRD II and NASA Mission Locate Whistling Space Electrons’ Origins, NASA)

Intraluminal hyperplasia of endothelial cells, encircling the entire lumen.

(Circumferential Endothelial Hyperplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

Jupiter’s poles are a stark contrast to the more familiar orange and white belts and zones encircling the planet at lower latitudes.

(Jupiter’s Jet-Streams Are Unearthly, NASA)

The Martian dust storm has grown in size and is now officially a "planet-encircling" (or "global") dust event.

(Martian Dust Storm Grows Global: Curiosity Captures Photos of Thickening Haze, NASA)