0 the process in which something such as information, money, or goods passes from one person to another: --
The paper has a circulation of 150,000.
figurative I hear she's out of circulation/back in circulation (= taking part/not taking part in social activities) after her accident.
Add her name to the circulation list for this report (= the people who will be given it to read).
Police have warned that there are a lot of fake £50 notes in circulation.
2 the use of a particular type of money or payment system in the economy: --
Within just five years, the number of credit cards in circulation had tripled.
come into/go into/be put into circulation The new $100 bills will go into circulation early next year.
withdraw from/take out of circulation Many European currencies were withdrawn from circulation after the euro was adopted.
3 the typical number of copies of a newspaper or magazine that are sold every day, week, or month: --
4 the act of sending goods or information from one person to another or from one place to another: --
Although the neglect of ocean dynamics and deep thermohaline circulations probably affects some regional details of our results, the basic aspects are very likely to be robust.
Open squares, 1.4% isoflurane was delivered to both cranial and torso (spinal) circulations.
We simply need to collect all particular solutions in one vector and add multiples of the various elementary circulations, one for each cycle.
Dizygotic twins therefore preserve separate fetal placental circulations despite apparent placental fusion.
In almost all cases studied, placentas demonstrate superficial artery-to-artery and vein-to-vein communications between the acardiac and pump twin's circulations.
His abdominal ultrasound showed patent portal and hepatic venous circulations, as well as a patent inferior caval vein.
The age at presentation is strongly related with the degree of cyanosis, which depends on the amount of mixing between the systemic and pulmonary circulations.
Furthermore, the various rings differed in their displacements normal to the traverse line, in their circulations, and in their small-scale internal details.