Wiktionary
vb. 1 To publicize something by publishing and distributing circulars. 2 To canvass opinion by using a questionnaire. 3 To make something circular in shape.
WordNet
v. canvass by distributing letters [syn: circularise]
canvass by using a questionnaire
distribute circulars to [syn: circularise]
cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news" [syn: circulate, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around]
make circular
Usage examples of "circularize".
Second by second, dekameter by dekameter, the loop grew and circularized into space on the sunside of the sunclipper, a mere kilometer from the thousands of monosil lines that could cut it instantly.
Sariena contradicted this, stating that data collected over the past ten months by Kronian space probes showed a change in the electrical properties of the space medium sufficient to invalidate conventional models, and that calculations based on the revised model showed that orbits could indeed be circularized in the way postulated, within the requisite time frame.
One of the reasons why Terran astronomers had opposed the young-Venus theory so strongly was the problem of how it could have circularized its orbit in a mere few thousand years.
We circularized the town—putting up posters in recreation centers in an appeal to red-blooded Americans, made stump speeches, and "impressed" soldiers found in the local hot spots.
Friction with the thick interplanetary medium had almost circularized its path, and worked together with resonances to make this ever shorter.
Talking to the Bolo was an exercise in highly circularized hypermobility, a great way to get nowhere fast.
On November 26, the day that he handed it to Nomura, Tokyo circularized its major embassies with an open code.
Two passes through the atmosphere, I've got the orbit circularized, and as a free bonus, I get my plane change.
The reigning Kronian model of what had taken place traced back to heretical challenges to orthodox astronomy that had first been proposed in the mid-twentieth century and held that after its violent birth, Venus had careened about the Solar System as a loose cannon, disturbing the orbits of both Earth and Mars and eventually circularizing its own orbit to become the planetary body familiar in modern times.
Could the two bodies have exchanged angular momentum in such a way as to progressively lift Mars to more distant orbits, at the same time reducing and circularizing Venus's to an inferior one?
His voice knew the circularizing tones of charity, the quiet cajolery of good works.
Essentially, tidal pumping induced through combined electrical and gravitational forces in a hot plastic body of the kind Venus was theorized to have been would drive an initially eccentric orbit toward a minimum-energy state, circularizing it much more rapidly than anything in conventional theory permitted.
Essentially, tidal pumping induced through combined electrical and gravitational forces in a hot plastic body of the kind Venus was theorized to have been would drive an initially eccentric orbit toward a minimum-energy state, circularizing it much more rapidly than anything in conventional theory permitted.
Seat-back screens flashed a quick warning, and the small rockets fired again, circularizing their orbit at four hundred kilometers' altitude.
Her careful attention to her work, in the circularizing department--her expertness--lost her position for her.