circulus

[ sur-kyuh-luhs ]

noun

, plural cir·cu·li [-lahy].

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of circulus¹

< Latin: circle

Example Sentences

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

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Otherwise the definition is called a circulus in definiendo.

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

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

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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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