Crossword clues for circularity
circularity
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Circularity \Cir`cu*lar"i*ty\, n. [LL. circularitas.] The quality or state of being circular; a circular form.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from circular (adj.) + -ity.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state of being circular. 2 (context countable English) A circular object, form or argument.
WordNet
n. the roundness of a 2-dimensional figure [syn: disk shape]
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. It denotes the homogeneity of the variances of difference values between the conditions. It is often also called "sphericity".
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.