circumaviation

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noun

The act or process of circumaviating.

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Meanings

nouncircumaviation (usually uncountable, plural circumaviations)

plural circumaviations

  1. uncommonuncountableusuallyThe act or process of circumaviating.

    THE CIRCUMAVIATION of the GLOBE / UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE PANAMA-PACIFIC UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION / SAN FRANCISCO / 1915 / TENTATIVE ROUTE OF THE AIRMEN SHOWN ON THE BUTTERFLY MAP INVENTED BY B. J. S. CAHILL, F. R. G. S., CALIFORNIA, U.S.A.

    1914 May 29, Flying, volume 3, page 123
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    Travel is broadening. And exciting too, sometimes. In eleven European trips and two circumaviations during the past eleven years in quest of rare books, I have been lucky on two or three occasions. In Edinburgh in 1959 I came across a set of Blaeu's Atlas in eleven large volumes, printed in Amsterdam in 1662.

    1966, Coranto, volumes 4-6, page 24

Origin

By surface analysis, circumaviate + -ion, or, by surface analysis, circum- + aviation.

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APA

circumaviation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/circumaviation

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“circumaviation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/circumaviation. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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