What is "circumferential"

Usage examples of "circumferential".

We must therefore conclude that the central glands, when strongly excited, transmit some influence to the glands of the circumferential tentacles, causing them to secrete more copiously.

Some of the moles would move around circumferential arcs as well as radially, so that a multiply connected network, rather like a three-dimensional spiderweb, would develop within the hydrate beds.

Even in the rude circumferential rim or wall of wax round a growing comb, flexures may sometimes be observed, corresponding in position to the planes of the rhombic basal plates of future cells.

A city in itself, the circumferential ring housed the more desirable living quarters, Command Central, Life-Support Control, Gravity Management, Earth Communications General, recreational facilities, assembly halls, dining rooms and even a miniature park with its tiled swimming pool and equi-solar radiation.

Nor can this latter fact be accounted for by supposing that the transmission is effected through the two inosculations, or through the circumferential zigzag line of union, for had this been the case, the exterior tentacles on the opposite side of the disc would have been affected before the more central ones, which never occurred.

They paused for a moment at an eight-lane street, part of the circumferential network around the small city, and Gavin had a momentary upsurge of hope that they had been stopped.

The sciences properly so called, those that are by agreement termed positive, present themselves as so many external and circumferential points from which we view reality.

Over the bony prominences of both wrists are incomplete circumferential dry, reddish-brown abrasions and minute skin tags.

The circumferential part of the leaf of Aldrovanda thus differs greatly from that of Dionaea.

Now bees, as may be clearly seen by examining the edge of a growing comb, do make a rough, circumferential wall or rim all round the comb.

I was able practically to show this fact, by covering the edges of the hexagonal walls of a single cell, or the extreme margin of the circumferential rim of a growing comb, with an extremely thin layer of melted vermilion wax.

Durner was their primary suspect because he was known to have undergone a circumferential autologous penile engorgement.

On what had to be the command level was a continuous circumferential bench four feet from the floor without so much as a screen or a function key to mar its smooth surface.