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ENCIRCLING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being all around the edges; enclosing
Example:
the room's skirting board needs painting
Synonyms:
encircling; skirting
Classified under:
Similar:
peripheral (on or near an edge or constituting an outer boundary; the outer area)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb encircle
Context examples:
A morphologic finding that refers to the accumulation of glial cells encircling neurons in a tissue specimen.
(Perineuronal Satellitosis, NCI Thesaurus)
A morphologic finding that refers to the accumulation of glial cells encircling vessels in a tissue specimen.
(Perivascular Satellitosis, NCI Thesaurus)
He disappeared one morning in the encircling fog with his two men, and we never saw them again, though it was not many days when we learned that they had passed from schooner to schooner until they finally regained their own.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
When Juno first arrived at Jupiter in July 2016, its infrared and visible-light cameras discovered giant cyclones encircling the planet's poles - nine in the north and six in the south. Were they, like their Earthly siblings, a transient phenomenon, taking only weeks to develop and then ebb?
(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)
The first hints that ring rain existed came from Voyager observations of seemingly unrelated phenomena: peculiar variations in Saturn’s electrically charged upper atmosphere (ionosphere), density variations in Saturn’s rings, and a trio of narrow dark bands encircling the planet at northern mid-latitudes.
(Saturn is Losing Its Rings, NASA)
Therefore, it is very puzzling why there is a thin disk encircling a starving black hole in NGC 3147 that mimics much more powerful disks found in extremely active galaxies with engorged, monster black holes.
(Hubble Uncovers Black Hole Disk that Shouldn't Exist, NASA)
The repetition to any ears—even to Steerforth's—of what she had been unable to repress when her heart lay open to me by an accident, I felt would be a rough deed, unworthy of myself, unworthy of the light of our pure childhood, which I always saw encircling her head.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Via a NASA-led citizen science project, eight people with no formal training in astrophysics helped discover what could be a fruitful new place to search for planets outside our solar system – a large disk of gas and dust encircling a star known as a circumstellar disk.
(A Potential New Hunting Ground for Exoplanets, NASA)
Discerning a predictable pattern for which Martian years will have planet-encircling or global storms has been a challenge.
(Study Predicts Next Global Dust Storm on Mars, NASA)
