D defs.my
Menu ☰
Entry 5 senses Webster, 1913

Circulation

/sẽrk'-yəl-āshˌ-ən/ · Cir·cu·la·tion · IPA /ˌsɝkjʊˈleɪʃən/
01 n. The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
  1. 1.
    The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
    “This continual circulation of human things.” — Swift.
  2. 2.
    The act of passing from place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission.
    “The true doctrines of astronomy appear to have had some popular circulation.” — Whewell.
  3. 3.
    Currency; circulating coin; notes, bills, etc., current for coin.
  4. 4.
    The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measure of diffusion; as, the circulation of a newspaper.
  5. 5.
    The movement of the blood in the blood-vascular system, by which it is brought into close relations with almost every living elementary constituent. Also, the movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants.(Physiol.)