Defined vs Circumscribed - What's the difference?
defined | circumscribed | Related terms |
(define)
Having a definition or value.
(bodybuilding) Having extreme muscle separation as a result of low body fat.
(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.
Defined is a related term of circumscribed.
As verbs the difference between defined and circumscribed
is that defined is (define) while circumscribed is (circumscribe).As an adjective defined
is having a definition or value.defined
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* (having a definition or value) undefinedcircumscribed
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(head)circumscribe
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(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; […].}}