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CIRCUITION

Definition: CIRCUITION

CIRCUITION

Noun

1. The act of going round; circumlocution.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Circuition \Cir`cu*i"tion\, noun. [Latin expression circuitio. See Circuit.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: CIRCUITION

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Circuit

Noun: circuit, roundabout way, digression, detour, circumbendibus, ambages, loop; winding; (circuition); zigzag; (deviation).

Circuition

Noun: circuition, circulation; turn, curvet; excursion, circumvention, circumnavigation, circumambulation; northwest passage; circuit.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Rhyming with "CIRCUITION"

Words rhyming with "CIRCUITION" (pronounced 'Cir`cu*i"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

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Anagrams: CIRCUITION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-i-i-i-n-o-r-t-u"

-3 letters: circuit, noritic, ruction.

-4 letters: citric, citrin, citron, concur, cortin, critic, iconic, iritic, ironic, nitric.

-5 letters: conic, cornu, count, court, croci, curio, cutin, ictic, incur, intro, ionic, nitro, occur, ontic, orcin, ricin, runic, rutin, tonic, toric, torii, tunic.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-i-i-i-n-o-r-t-u"
 

+4 letters: fructification, reductionistic.

 

+5 letters: circularization, circumscription, crosslinguistic, fructifications, neuroscientific.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CIRCUITION


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 49 52 43 55 49 54 49 4F 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    ..    .-.    -.-.    ..-    ..    -    ..    ---    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001001 01010010 01000011 01010101 01001001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#73 &#82 &#67 &#85 &#73 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0049 0052 0043 0055 0049 0054 0049 004F 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37435237554354434948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Rhymes
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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