The Collaborative International Dictionary
Circumpolar \Cir`cum*po"lar\, a. [Pref. circum- + polar.] About the pole; -- applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting; as, circumpolar stars.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Located or found throughout a polar region. 2 (context astronomy English) Of a celestial body, continually visible above the horizon during the entire 360 degrees of daily travel.
WordNet
adj. (of a celestial body) continually visible above the horizon during the entire 360 degrees of daily travel; "a circumpolar star"
located or found throughout a polar region
Wikipedia
Circumpolar may refer to:
- Antarctic region
- Antarctic Circle
- the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
- Subantarctic
- List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands
- Antarctic Convergence
- Antarctic Circumpolar Wave
- Antarctic Ocean
- Arctic region
- Arctic Circle
- Subarctic
- Circumpolar peoples
- Arctic Cooperation and Politics
- Arctic Ocean
- List of islands in the Arctic Ocean
- Circumpolar star, stars that never rise or set from the perspective of a given latitude on Earth.
- Polar front in meteorology.
- circumpolar navigation, a global circumnavigation which traverses both poles
Usage examples of "circumpolar".
I look up from writing those words and on the other side of the wire screen eight or nine of them are clustered, two feet away, forming the shape of my face as surely as the stars delineate Draco, the firebreather, up in the circumpolar heavens.
And to this continuity of the circumpolar land, and to the consequent freedom for intermigration under a more favourable climate, I attribute the necessary amount of uniformity in the sub-arctic and northern temperate productions of the Old and New Worlds, at a period anterior to the Glacial epoch.
The circumpolar forest was open, and the trees, cypress and beech, were well spaced so their leaves could catch the low Arctic sunlight.
Vast, cold circumpolar ocean currents gathered in the southern seas, feeding the great northward currents of the Atlantic.
Pyrassis itself, the single network of artificial satellites locked in equatorial and circumpolar orbits was as elementary as Flinx had ever encountered, designed to facilitate nothing more complicated than rudimentary ground-based and low-orbital communications.
Meanwhile, I think that we shall be able to run a fair preliminary survey of this planet if we put the ship into a circumpolar orbit.
Tangye, please calculate the maneuvers required to put us in the circumpolar orbit.
Discovery had reentered the normal continuum, shortly thereafter taking up a circumpolar orbit about the planet.
As they left, Sadler glanced once more toward Draco, but already he had forgotten which of the faint circumpolar stars was the one he had come to see.
When they reach Antarctica, they are caught up in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, where they are driven onward into the Pacific.
At the southern zenith glittered the circumpolar constellations, and above all the Southern Cross, which some days before the engineer had greeted on the summit of Mount Franklin.
It even became so brilliant as to be visible in full daylight, since, its position being circumpolar, it never set in the latitude of Northern Europe.
We have the circumpolar location, the radial unit-, and angular position.
For the first thousand miles of its journey, the Salvation was hurried along by the winds of the Screaming Sixties, Furious Fifties, and Roaring Forties, the eastward-flowing circumpolar current, and of course, our fleet of oceangoing tugs.