Circumscription (Noun)
Meaning
The act of circumscribing.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The boundaries of the forest reserve are subject to careful circumscription to ensure that development projects do not encroach on the protected area.
- In graphic design, the circumscription of shapes within other shapes can create visually striking patterns.
- To minimize land fragmentation, farmers practiced the circumscription of farmland boundaries by rotating crop locations seasonally.
- To manage chronic flooding, urban planners propose a detailed circumscription of rivers and drainage basins in low-lying districts.
- Physicists explore new possibilities by achieving circumscription of entangled quantum states around critical energies that support both formation and erasure of wormholes.