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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

circulus

/sur-kyuh-luhs/US // ˈsɜr kyə ləs //

循环,循环系统,丸子,循环系统的发展

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural cir·cu·li [-lahy]. /-ˌlaɪ/.

    • : any of the concentric circles on each scale of a fish, each of which indicates the annual growth of that scale.

Examples

  • Who knows whether this vital circulus of the marine animality is not the starting point of all physical circulus?

  • Otherwise the definition is called a circulus in definiendo.

  • Otherwise the definition is called a circulus in definiendo (defining in a circle).

  • The entire activity of justice is a circulus vitiosus, a faulty short conclusion.

  • He purposely makes us tread the round of the circulus vitiosus, as in the old saw: A Cretan said, all Cretans are liars.

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