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Defined vs Circumscribed - What's the difference?

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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

Verb

(head)
  • (define)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a definition or value.
  • (bodybuilding) Having extreme muscle separation as a result of low body fat.
  • Antonyms

    * (having a definition or value) undefined

    circumscribed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (circumscribe)

  • circumscribe

    English

    Verb

    (circumscrib)
  • 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= 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; […].}}
  • (geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.
  • Derived terms

    * circumscription