circum

• “That is our natural angle in revolution, that is our unit, the complete rotation, or what we call a circum-angle.”

  The British and the Metric Systems

• “The term circum-Atlantic is derived from Joseph Roach,”

  Notes on 'The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire'

• “Bill Gates benefited inordinately from unusual circum-stances in which he was able to "practice" programming at an early age in a way that almost none of his peers could.”

  Forbes: Fact And Comment

• “Circumstance comes from Old French circum -, circonstance, which comes from Latin circumstantia, which meant “standing around, surrounding condition” (all this is from the OED, not me).”

  2010 March « Motivated Grammar

• “Since circum means “round” or “around” in Latin, the critics said, “under” is inappropriate.”

  The Grammarphobia Blog » Blog Archive » Pomp and circumstances

• “And of course the background narrative of melting ice -- its planetary import made palpable to our expedition because the presence of floating ice nearly 150 miles south of where it should be, of where it was last year, an impediment to the circum-Spitsbergian journey we had tentatively mapped.”

  The Huffington Post: Beth Kapusta: ...somewhere just south of the 79th parallel

• “The Santos Basin fields in the Atlantic off of Brazil may contain 40 billion barrels, and the mean estimate in the recent circum-Arctic study by the USGS was 90 billion barrels.”

  The Huffington Post: Asher Miller: There will be fuel? An open letter to the New York Times

• “Zhongguo Bianjiang Minzu yu Huantaipingyang Wenhua (Studies of Chinese minorities and circum-Pacific cultures).”

  Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)

• “Poor Rachel, born into Spain in privileged circum stances, but reduced by her grandmother's gambling to penury.”

  Fictionaut: Dearly Beloved

• “In practice, her spacesuit was too hampering; constant-volume joints allowed considerable freedom of movement, but not as much as bare skin, especially when circum-Saturnian temperatures required extra insulation.”

  Fictionaut: The Clique

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