Crossword clues for circulation
circulation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Circulation \Cir`cu*la"tion\, n. [L. circulatio: cf. F. circulation.]
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The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
This continual circulation of human things.
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The act of passing from place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission.
The true doctrines of astronomy appear to have had some popular circulation.
--Whewell. Currency; circulating coin; notes, bills, etc., current for coin.
The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measure of diffusion; as, the circulation of a newspaper.
(Physiol.) The movement of the blood in the blood-vascular system, by which it is brought into close relations with almost every living elementary constituent. Also, the movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Middle French circulation or directly from Latin circulationem (nominative circulatio), noun of action from past participle stem of circulare "to form a circle," from circulus "small ring" (see circle (n.)). Used of blood first by William Harvey, 1620s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (senseid en The act of moving in a circle)The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began. 2 The act of passing from place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission. 3 Currency; circulating coin; notes, bills, etc., current for coin. 4 The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measure of diffusion; as, the circulation of a newspaper. 5 (senseid en The movement of the blood in the blood-vascular system)The movement of the blood in the blood-vascular system, by which it is brought into close relations with almost every living elementary constituent. Also the movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants.
WordNet
n. the dissemination of copies of periodicals (as newspapers or magazines)
movement through a circuit; especially the movement of blood through the heart and blood vessels
(library science) the count of books that are loaned by a library over a specified period
number of copies of a newspaper or magazine that are sold; "by increasing its circulation the newspaper hoped to increase its advertising"
free movement or passage through a series of vessels (as of water through pipes or sap through a plant)
the spread or transmission of something (as news or money) to a wider group or area
Wikipedia
Circulation may refer to:
In fluid dynamics, circulation is the line integral around a closed curve of the velocity field. Circulation is normally denoted Γ ( Greek uppercase gamma). Circulation was first used independently by Frederick Lanchester, Wilhelm Kutta, and Nikolai Zhukovsky.
Circulation is a scientific journal published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins for the American Heart Association. The journal publishes articles related to research in and the practice of cardiovascular diseases, including observational studies, clinical trials, epidemiology, health services and outcomes studies, and advances in applied (translational) and basic research. From 1996 to 2004, its impact factor remained close to 10. As of 2014, its impact factor was 14.43 and it ranked fourth among journals in the Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems, Peripheral Vascular Disease categories.
2008 saw the appearance of six subspecialty journals. The first edition of Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology (Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol) appeared in April 2008, followed by an edition dedicated to heart failure in May titled Circulation: Heart Failure (Circ Heart Fail). The remaining four journals launched once per month from July through October 2008. In order of release they were, Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging (Circ Cardiovasc Imaging), Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions (Circ Cardiovasc Intervent), Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes (Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes), and Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics (Circ Cardiovasc Genet).
In monetary economics, circulation is the continuing use of individual units of a currency for transactions. Thus currency in circulation is the total value of currency (coins and paper currency) that has ever been issued minus the amount that has been removed from the economy by the central bank. More broadly, money in circulation is the total money supply of a country, which can be defined in various ways always including currency and also including some types of bank deposits.
Circulation is a 2008 fantasy- psychological thriller film written and directed by Ryan Harper. It stars Yvonne DeLaRosa and Sherman Koltz as residents in a purgatory-like existence where people are reincarnated as animals.
In the field of architecture, circulation refers to the way people move through and interact with a building. In public buildings, circulation is of high importance; for example, in buildings such as museums, it is key to have a floor plan that allows continuous movement while minimizing the necessity to retrace one's steps, allowing a visitor to see each work in a sequential, natural fashion. Structures such as elevators, escalators, and staircases are often referred to as circulation elements, as they are positioned and designed to optimize the flow of people through a building, sometimes through the use of a core.
In some situations, one-way circulation is desirable.
Usage examples of "circulation".
In minute doses Blood-root is a valuable alterative, acting upon the biliary secretion and improving the circulation and digestion.
Keep up the circulation of his blood for years to come, and excite aphorism and anecdotes and dreams for the instruction and amusements by the action of his brain upon his mind.
They would be recorded, in all probability, in the Avifauna Journal - a small publication of limited circulation which went to keen students of bird life.
It invariably obstructs the circulation of my magnificent caudal appendage.
They cheapen the price so as to gain a circulation, which advertisers cater for.
The injection of the tumors with a fluid which causes coagulation of the blood, and which does not completely shut off the return current of the circulation through the tumors, has proved fatal in a small percentage of cases.
This consultation, which I have still in my possession, says that our blood is an elastic fluid which is liable to diminish or to increase in thickness, but never in quantity, and that my haemorrhage could only proceed from the thickness of the mass of my blood, which relieved itself in a natural way in order to facilitate circulation.
The latter possess double endowments, and not only participate in the operations of deglutition, digestion, circulation, and respiration, but are also nerves of sensation and instinctive motion.
Though the denarius was a more common coin in circulation than the sestertius, Roman accounting procedures were always expressed in sesterces.
Ergo, no need for blood to be circulated to the lungs, save to nourish the developing tissueand so the ductus arteriosus bypasses the pulmonary circulation.
Within the pulp is contained the grape sugar, which differs in some respects chemically from cane sugar, and which is taken up straightway into our circulation when eaten, without having to be changed slowly by the saliva, as is the case with cane sugar.
The circulation is loaded with effete and useless matter, the vessels being thereby weakened and distended, and the circulation retarded.
In consequence the pulse grows small and weak, and the patient cannot exercise or labor as usual, and finally the lower limbs begin to swell, then the face and body, the skin looks dusky, the appetite is impaired, the kidneys become diseased, there is difficulty in breathing, and the patient, it is said, dies of dropsy, yet dropsy was the result of a disease of the heart, which retarded the circulation and enfeebled the system, and which was actually the primary cause of death.
Impure blood, inherited scrofulous taints, enfeebled circulation, debility, either general or nervous, are all advance agents, inviting catarrhal disease, and preventing rapid recovery from an acute attack, so that a low grade of Chronic Catarrh is generally the sequence.
Shelby tucked some hairs that had fallen out of her loose ponytail and wondered if she should warn him that he was about to cut off circulation to a vital area, with the way he was now completely poking through the eyelet hole.