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Circulation vs Circling - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between circulation and circling

is that circulation is (The act of moving in a circle)The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began while circling is a circular motion.

As a verb circling is

present participle of lang=en.

circulation

English

Noun

  • (senseid)The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
  • The act of passing from place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission.
  • Currency; circulating coin; notes, bills, etc., current for coin.
  • The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measure of diffusion; as, the circulation of a newspaper.
  • (senseid)The movement of the blood in the blood-vascular system, by which it is brought into close relations with almost every living elementary constituent. Also the movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants.

    • circling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A circular motion.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
    • one of these birds came wheeling and screaming round his head in a maze of untrackably swift circlings .