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verb (circumscrib, ing)
  1. To draw a line around; encircle.
  2. To limit narrowly; restrict.
  3. (geometry) To draw a circle, sphere, or higher-dimensional ball through all the vertices of (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.).
Etymology: circum, "around"; scribere "to write"

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