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The roundness of a 2-dimensional figure
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circularity
Word definitions for circularity in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the roundness of a 2-dimensional figure [syn: disk shape ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state of being circular. 2 (context countable English) A circular object, form or argument.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Circularity can mean: Begging the question Circular definition Circular reasoning ; also known as circular logic Circularity (roundness) specification of an object. A circularity ratio as a compactness measure of a shape An assumption of ANOVAs with repeated-measures. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from circular (adj.) + -ity .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Circularity \Cir`cu*lar"i*ty\, n. [LL. circularitas.] The quality or state of being circular; a circular form.
Usage examples of circularity.
Among the brain scientists, his notions of feedback and circularity struck a resonant chord.
Just as two or more persons can talk to one another about a perceptual object or a remembered event that is commonly apprehended by them, so two or more persons can talk about liberty or justice as common objects of thought, or about triangularity and circularity, or about the difference between tree and shrub as distinct kinds of vegetation.
And yet there is no possible comparison between these two modes of repetition, between, on one hand, the ironic donjuanesque journey and, on the other, the circularity of an idyllic world driven by the nostalgia for paradise lost.
It seemed that by way of compensation for his lack of clarity concerning his personal life, he was now able to grasp some of what Tomás had told him over the years and, though he could not have articulated it at the time, he recognized a strange circularity in the events that had led to his ownership of the restaurant.
All I know is this: despite my androgenized brain, there’s an innate feminine circularity in the story I have to tell.
Being now satisfied that the linear system is not applicable to the present case, we shall return to circularity.
Which was a beginner story in itself, and the circularity pleased him almost as much as the tricksterish unfairness of it all.