Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CIR-CU-LA'TION
CIR'CU-LA-TINGCIR-CU-LA-TO'RI-OUS
CIR-CU-LA'TION, n.
- The act of moving round, or in a circle, or in a course which brings or tends to bring the moving body to the point where its motion began; as, the circulation of the blood in the body.
- A series in which the same order is preserved and things return to the same state.
- The act of going and returning; or of passing from place to place, or from person to person; as, the circulation of money.
- Currency; circulating coin, or notes or bills current for coin.
- In chimistry, circulation is an operation by which the same vapor, raised by fire, falls back to be returned and distilled several times.
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