circularity (serkulariti)

[ circularize (sér kū-lär-īz), v. t.; pret. and pp. circularized, ppr. circularizing. [ circularly (sėr'kū-lär-li), adv. In a circle; in a circular manner; in the form of a circle; so as to return to the starting-point. Trade, which, like blood, should circularly flow. Dryden. And then for fruit, the best way is to have walls built circularly one within another. Pepys, Diary, II. 417. A ray of light polarized in a plane is equivalent to two rays polarized circularly . At kins on , tr. of Mascart and Joubert, I. 577. circularyt (sér kū-lā-ri), a . [ : see circular .] Circular. Hooker . circulate (ser'kū-lāt), v.; pret. and pp. circu lated, ppr. circulating. [ They sente out their shallop againe with 10 of their principall men, & some sea men, upon further discovery, intending to circulate that deepe bay of Cap-codd. Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 83. His head hath been intoxicated by circulating the earth. Bp. Croft , On Burnet's Theory of the Earth, Pref. 2. To cause to pa from place to place or from person to person; spread; di eminate: as, to circulate a report; to circulate bills of credit. Circulate the money of the great among the ingenious, and from them to the lower rank of people, and encourage arts and sciences. Pococke , Description of the East, II. ii. 277. One tract, written with such boldne and acrimony that no printer dared to put it in type, was widely circulated in manuscript. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. II. in trans. 1. To move in a circle or cir cuit; move or pa through a circuit back to the starting-point: as, the blood circulates in the body; the bottle circulated about the table. Our knowledge, like our blood, must circulate . Sir J. Denham, Progre of Learning. 2. To be diffused or distributed; pa from place to place, from person to person, or from hand to hand: as, air circulates in a building; money circulates in the country; the report cir culated throughout the city. The whisper'd tales that circulate about. Crabbe, Lady Barbara. Circulating capital, decimal, library, medium, etc. See the nouns.- Circulating element, in math., a function Aq of two whole numbers a and g, such that Aq =1 if q is exactly divisible by a, and Aq=0 if there is a remainder.- Circulating function. Same as circulator, 3. circulate (sér kū-lāt), n. [