circulator
Americannoun
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a person who moves from place to place.
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a person who circulates money, information, etc.
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a talebearer or scandalmonger.
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any of various devices for circulating gases or liquids.
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Obsolete. a mountebank.
Etymology
Origin of circulator
1600–10; < Latin circulātor itinerant vendor who gathers a circle of people round himself ( circulate, -tor ); later as circulate + -or 2
Example Sentences
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Online reaction to Metro’s draft environmental impact report echoes the agency’s dilemma: choosing speed and convenience, or creating a local circulator to densely populated neighborhoods.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2024
At the center of the "Y" is the circulator, which is like a traffic roundabout for the microwave signals mediating the quantum interactions.
From Science Daily • May 1, 2024
You might have anti-griddles over here, you're going to have a Carpigiani ice cream machine over here, you're going to have a circulator already set.
From Salon • Apr. 22, 2023
In one video The Times reviewed, Fight for $15 organizer Cherie Wallace asks a petition circulator who approached her, “So this is to get the minimum wage to $22?”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2022
The former added the idea of the prime circulator, and the latter applied Cauchy’s theory of residues to the subject, and invented the arithmetical entity termed a denumerant.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various
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