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The thermal immersion circulator is the next part of the equation in "sous-vide" cooking.

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  1. One who or that which circulates: specifically applied to a circulating decimal fraction. See decimal.
  2. A juggler; a mountebank; one who goes about showing tricks. These new Gnosticks, … a kind of Gipsy-Christians, or a race of Circulators, Tumblers, and Taylers in the Church. Bp. Gauden, Tears of the Church, p. 200.
  3. A function of two whole numbers, a variable, q, and a period, a, of the form where aq, etc., are circulating elements, and A0, etc., are numerical coefficients. Also called circulating function.
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  • If the manure hits the air circulator, Sool isn't going to be the one taking the blame. —  ARTEMIS FOWL is a child prodigy from Ireland who has dedicated his brilliant mind to criminal activities
  • The authority provides all public transit services within Cuyahoga County, including rail rapid transit, light rail, fixed route, community circulator, and paratransit. —  Digital50.com Digital 50 Daily Industry News RSS Feed
  • The bag is placed in a thermal immersion circulator (our next gadget) and cooks at a constant temperature for an extended period of time, creating a flavorful and well-cooked end product. —  Discovery Channel :: Top Highlights
  • The thermal immersion circulator is the next part of the equation in "sous-vide" cooking. —  Discovery Channel :: Top Highlights
  • "The circulator is something that has become popular [among chefs]," Selker notes. —  Discovery Channel :: Top Highlights
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  1. from New Latin circulator; cf. Latin circulator, a peddler, later a mountebank, quack, Middle Latin a public crier, from circulari, collect people around one's self: see circulate, v.
 

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