circulation

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  1. noun Movement in a circle or circuit, especially the movement of blood through bodily vessels as a result of the heart's pumping action.
  2. noun Movement or passage through a system of vessels, as of water through pipes; flow.
  3. noun Free movement or passage.
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  • As small as our circulation is, we have four or five hundred of them in Port Sandor and around among the small settlements in the archipelago, and even on the mainland. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Four-Day Planet, by H. Beam Piper
  • In normal times, our circulation has been a steady 20,000. —  Environment news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
  • If their circulation is audited, then their numbers are much more accurate than someone who simply tells you how many publications are printed and distributed.
  • I've also read that the ozone hole has had an effect on the Antarctic circulation, which is why Antarctica is the part of the globe that has warmed least [or not at all]. —  RealClimate
  • Varicose Veins can be very uncomfortable because of poor blood circulation which is caused by the varicose veins and it is advisable to have the varicose veins surgically removed to improve the circulation of blood in the effected areas. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
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  1. = French circulation = Spanish circulacion = Portuguese circulação = Italian circolazione, from Latin circulatio(n-), a circular course (as of a planet), from circulari: see circulate, v.
 

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