Circumscribed vs Finite - What's the difference?
circumscribed | finite | Related terms |
(circumscribe)
To draw a line around; to encircle.
To limit narrowly; to restrict.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.
Having an end or limit; constrained by bounds.
(grammar, as opposed to infinite) limited by person or number.
As a verb circumscribed
is past tense of circumscribe.As an adjective finite is
having an end or limit; constrained by bounds.circumscribed
English
Verb
(head)circumscribe
English
Verb
(circumscrib)Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].}}
Derived terms
* circumscriptionfinite
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The "goes" in "he goes" is a finite form of a verb
