0 present participle of circumscribe
1 to limit something:
But they swiftly recognised its potential for circumscribing the workers' ability to organize and sustain strikes across the industry as a whole.
Boundaries can be described either by the actual profiles of the objects, or by their circumscribing circles 0 rectangles 0polygons.
Even when circumscribing decentralisation in this way, there are many areas in which central governments can devolve power.
Applying the same principle used for the circumscribing spheres.
The tetrahedron, the octahedron and the cube may all be related to the diameter of the circumscribing sphere with lengths which are 'commensurable in square'.
It was undermined by ' impatient ' kingship and ' ferrets ' at court and the circumscribing of local autonomy by both prerogative and episcopal authority.
Dominant groups or powers thus restrict minorities by speaking both about and for them, circumscribing their rights or potential to define themselves.
She strongly suggests that "circumscribing the variable context" of the linguistic variable be both a starting point and ending point in variationist analysis.
