The Collaborative International Dictionary
circulating \circulating\ adj.
moving or flowing in a circuit and returning to the same point; as, steam circulating through the pipes; the circulating thyroid hormones.
passing from one to another. [prenominal]
Wiktionary
1 Moving about freely. 2 An institution lending from its collection, especially of books, on condition of membership. v
(present participle of circulate English)
WordNet
adj. passing from one to another; "circulating bills and coins" [syn: circulating(a)]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "circulating".
The way that extreme service works k best exemplified by a story that has been circulating in advertising and marketing circles for years.
Faraday generator and supported internal circulating currents of five million amperes with a power dissipation of a thousand billion watts.
Each time the circulating nurse returned to the OR, he expected her to spread the news that there had been a terrible anesthetic complication.
If they lost power now there would be no main coolant pumps circulating hot water to the boilers, no steam and no turbine generators.
The Politburo needed to know, Nikita Khrushchev insisted, whether the rumors circulating in the Kremlin about there being a third English defector were based on fact or wishful thinking.
It will injuriously affect the community by its operation on the circulating medium.
Ellie Louden had arrived at Langridge House and fearfully told her friend about the gossip circulating that Letitia Stanaway had shot Desborough, and then escaped to the continent with Sir Humphrey Balshaw.
He did indeed wonder that Miss Milborne could so calmly talk of the several acquaintances she had at present sojourning in Bath, of taking out subscriptions to the Balls at the Assembly Rooms, of visiting the best circulating libraries, and of a dozen other such irrelevant trifles.
She made her way over to Suz, who was circulating with a bottle of champagne.
Wordsworth, and of the viewless history of the book carried by the poet from circulating in Bath to quiet rural Rydal Mount, and now having wandered over to New England.
Caltech literary and SF club, SPECTRE, was particularly helpful in circulating and discussing an early manuscript, with special thanks to Mark Adler, Ben Finley, Ken McCue, Steinn Sigurdssen, Ulrika Anderson, Amy Carpenter, David Palme, David Coufal, Paul Haubert, James Cummings, Douglass Bloomer, Erik Russell, Earl Hubbell, Yair Zadik, Eric Johnson, Gorm Nykeim, Eric Christian, Richard Achterberg, Matt Fields, Erich Schneider, Douglas Bloemer, and Dick Brown.
Where the maser was an amplification of generated microwaves, the laser was an amplification of light, and theories about how this might be accomplished were circulating widely throughout the weapons development community even before Bell Labs produced the first maser.
After a night of brewski and yoyogurt and dancing, just circulating your blood was difficult work.
After Marcie had introduced herself, Devon had confirmed the rumors circulating about Chase.
Between the perfusionists, anesthesiologists, circulating and scrub nurses, the surgeons and all the necessary high-tech equipment, the room was quite crowded.