circles (noun)
111okuritsuridashi — noun a kimarite in which the attacker circles behind his opponent, lifts him up and carries him out of the ring …
112Poincaré disk — noun The hyperbolic plane, viewed as a disk so that Euclidean circles and lines Euclidean perpendicular to the disks surface are hyperbolic lines …
113hasbian — noun A former lesbian who is now in a heterosexual relationship. Evelyn White reports that in feminist circles, lesbians who have gone straight apparently all the rage these days are known as ‘hasbians’. Syn: wasbian …
114armillary sphere — noun An instrument consisting of graduated metal circles used to represent the motions of celestial bodies around the earth …
115radians — noun The angle subtended at the centre of a circle by an arc of the circle of the same length as the circles radius …
116septfoil — noun a) a symmetrical shape which forms the overall outline of seven partially overlapping circles of the same diameter. b) A stylized flower or leaf with seven lobes …
117turn of the century — noun The beginning or end of a certain century. By the turn of the century he was starting to become well known in literary circles …
118radical line — noun The line containing the locus of points from which the segments respectively tangent to two given circles have equal length. Syn: radical axis See Also: radical center …
119theory — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ complete, unified ▪ a grand unified theory of the physical forces governing matter ▪ general ▪ coherent ▪ current …
120Vietnam\ syndrome — noun informal An attitude in government circles that diplomacy may be more effective in solving local political problems in other countries than the use of military force, stemming from the failure of the U.S. military intervention in Vietnam.… …
