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What does circumscribe mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word circumscribe? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To draw a line around; to encircle.
  2. To limit narrowly; to restrict.
  3. (geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.
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Furthermore, the situation is very difficult to circumscribe both in terms of quality and of quantity.
Figure 6 shows an equilateral triangle and a rhombus that circumscribe the same unit circle.
Both these bills use the pretext of real traumas to circumscribe freedom of opinion.
If one assigns to the authorities the power to imprison or even to kill people, one must restrict and clearly circumscribe this power.
To circumscribe their power a new army of Mamelukes was formed, called the Borgis.
From the earliest days of the new state there were efforts to circumscribe local authority powers.

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