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Mole :: Mole (n.) A mound or massive work formed of masonry or large stones, etc., laid in the sea, often extended either in a right line or an arc of a circle before a port which it serves to defend from the violence of the waves, thus protecting ships in a harbor; also, sometimes, the harbor itself..

Atrocha :: Atrocha (n.) A kind of chaetopod larva in which no circles of cilia are developed.

Almucantar :: Almucantar (n.) A small circle of the sphere parallel to the horizon; a circle or parallel of altitude. Two stars which have the same almucantar have the same altitude. See Almacantar.

Ferret-eye :: Ferret-eye (n.) The spur-winged goose; -- so called from the red circle around the eyes.

Hemicycle :: Hemicycle (n.) A half circle; a semicircle.

Incirclet :: Incirclet (n.) A small circle.

Gird :: Gird (v. t.) To surround; to encircle, or encompass..

Radius :: Radius (n.) A right line drawn or extending from the center of a circle to the periphery; the semidiameter of a circle or sphere.

Ectoprocta :: Ectoprocta (n. pl.) An order of Bryozoa in which the anus lies outside the circle of tentacles.

Circular :: Circular (a.) Addressed to a circle, or to a number of persons having a common interest; circulated, or intended for circulation; as, a circular letter..

Azimuth :: Azimuth (n.) An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object; as, the azimuth of a star; the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying..

Round :: Round (v. t.) To surround; to encircle; to encompass.

Elevation :: Elevation (n.) The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude; as, the elevation of the pole, or of a star..

Cirque :: Cirque (n.) A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects.

Ringed :: Ringed (a.) Encircled or marked with, or as with, a ring or rings..

Point :: Point (n.) A fixed conventional place for reference, or zero of reckoning, in the heavens, usually the intersection of two or more great circles of the sphere, and named specifically in each case according to the position intended; as, the equinoctial points; the solstitial points; the nodal points; vertical points, etc. See Equinoctial Nodal..

Almacantar :: Almacantar (n.) A recently invented instrument for observing the heavenly bodies as they cross a given almacantar circle. See Almucantar.

Epicycle :: Epicycle (n.) A circle, whose center moves round in the circumference of a greater circle; or a small circle, whose center, being fixed in the deferent of a planet, is carried along with the deferent, and yet, by its own peculiar motion, carries the body of the planet fastened to it round its proper center..

Lune :: Lune (n.) A figure in the form of a crescent, bounded by two intersecting arcs of circles..

Zincoid :: Zincoid (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, zinc; -- said of the electricity of the zincous plate in connection with a copper plate in a voltaic circle; also, designating the positive pole..

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