View example sentences, synonyms and word forms for Circumscribe.
Circumscribe meaning
To draw a line around; to encircle. | To limit narrowly; to restrict. | To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.
Example sentences (7)
At a period when operatives of the current administration seem obsessed with the idea of regulating social media evidently to circumscribe the civic space, this is another dangerous proposition that should be resisted.
But the either/or trap can be applied to virtually anything in order to circumscribe the democratic dream of a more just and humane future for all.
He didn't say the other part — that circumscribe information presented to the jury as civil rights attorney Harmeet Dhillon noted to Megyn Kelly.
In this way our settlements will gradually circumscribe and approach the Indians, and they will in time either incorporate with us as citizens of the United States, or remove beyond the Mississippi.
Laozi in the Tao Te Ching explains that the Tao is not a 'name' for a 'thing' but the underlying natural order of the Universe whose ultimate essence is difficult to circumscribe due to it being non conceptual yet evident' in one's being of aliveness.
That would at least circumscribe the Chordata.
The intent of publishing RDF-based ontologies on the Web is often to establish, or circumscribe, the intended meanings of the resource identifiers used to express data in RDF.