Circumvolution: Definition and part of speech

Circumvolution

  1. n. A roundabout procedure; a circumlocution.
  2. n. The act of rolling round; the state of being rolled.
  3. n. A thing rolled round another.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Circumvolve: Definition and part of speech

Circumvolve

  1. v. i. To roll round; to revolve.
  2. v. t. To roll round; to cause to revolve; to put into a circular motion.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.