How do you use Circumpolar in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like visible or polar, plus the exact meaning.
Circumpolar in a sentence
Circumpolar meaning
- Located or found throughout a polar region.
- Of a celestial body, continually visible above the horizon during the entire 360 degrees of daily travel.
Using Circumpolar
- The main meaning on this page is: Located or found throughout a polar region. | Of a celestial body, continually visible above the horizon during the entire 360 degrees of daily travel.
- Useful related words include: visible, seeable, polar.
- In the example corpus, circumpolar often appears in combinations such as: circumpolar current, antarctic circumpolar, the circumpolar.
Context around Circumpolar
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 9 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Circumpolar
- In this selection, "circumpolar" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, antarctic, powerful, military, current, stars and space stand out and add context to how "circumpolar" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and military circumpolar space shuttle and and the circumpolar stars appear. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "circumpolar" sits close to words such as abdulai, abhinandan and abhor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with circumpolar
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Circumpolar stars never dip below the horizon. (7 words)
Steady winds carried the balloon on a circumpolar flight lasting about two weeks. (13 words)
Civilian and military circumpolar space shuttle missions were planned for Vandenberg AFB in California. (14 words)
The stars of Ursa Major were all circumpolar in Athens of 400 BCE, and all but the stars in the Great Bear's left foot were circumpolar in Ovid's Rome, in the first century CE. (36 words)
If the opening occurred as late as hypothesized, then the Antarctic Circumpolar Current could not have had much of an effect on early Oligocene cooling, as it would not have existed. (31 words)
Despite the shallow flow between South America and Antarctica, there was not enough of a deep water opening to allow for significant flow to create a true Antarctic Circumpolar Current. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
The stars of Ursa Major were all circumpolar in Athens of 400 BCE, and all but the stars in the Great Bear's left foot were circumpolar in Ovid's Rome, in the first century CE.
David Holland, a New York University climate scientist, says A23A is now floating in the Antarctic circumpolar current, the world's strongest current, located in the Southern Hemisphere.
Scientists tracking the berg's progress via satellite warned that A68a — propelled by the powerful circumpolar current — could hit South Georgia within days.
With a latitude of 32°, Tucson's circumpolar stars and constellations are restricted to a circle with a radius of 32° centered on the North Star.
After studying the circumpolar current it is clear that it strongly influences regional and global climate as well as underwater biodiversity.
As the observer moves northward the pole rises and the circumpolar stars appear, now unblocked by the Earth.
Barker, P. F., and E. Thomas, 2004: Origin, signature and palaeoclimatic influence of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
Circumpolar stars never dip below the horizon.
Civilian and military circumpolar space shuttle missions were planned for Vandenberg AFB in California.
Despite the shallow flow between South America and Antarctica, there was not enough of a deep water opening to allow for significant flow to create a true Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
Dynamics The circumpolar current is driven by the strong westerly winds in the latitudes of the Southern Ocean.
For locations south of 34°S, Crux is circumpolar and thus always visible in the night sky.
Formation Published estimates of the onset of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current vary, but it is commonly considered to have started at the Eocene Oligocene boundary.
If the opening occurred as late as hypothesized, then the Antarctic Circumpolar Current could not have had much of an effect on early Oligocene cooling, as it would not have existed.
Non-circumpolar stars are visible only during certain days or seasons of the year.
Steady winds carried the balloon on a circumpolar flight lasting about two weeks.
The Inuit Circumpolar Council, as it is known today, uses both "Inuit" and "Eskimo" in its official documents.
This group probably radiated eastwards with the Antarctic Circumpolar Current out of the ancestral range of modern penguins throughout the Chattian (Late Oligocene), starting approximately 28 mya.
This water mass flows along the shelfbreak of the western Antarctic Peninsula and thus marks the most southerly water flowing through Drake Passage and therefore circumpolar.
Trends in the Antarctic Oscillation have been hypothesized to account for an increase in the transport of the Circumpolar Current over the past two decades.
Common combinations with circumpolar
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: