Meanings
nouncircumversion (uncountable)
- uncountableRotation by a full circle.
Rotation through 360°, which occurs in all Muscomorpha, is called circumversion.
1981, Manual of Nearctic Diptera, volume 1, →ISBN, page 56
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Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with circumversion
versionconversionPersiandispersiondiversionsubversionexcursionimmersionrecursionreversionperversionincursionintroversionretroversionventroversion
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