polar circle
either the Arctic or the Antarctic Circle.
Origin of polar circle
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How to use polar circle in a sentence
Here the continent again turns at right angles, and continues northeast into the northern polar circle.
Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas | W. Hastings MacaulayThe polar circle is parallel, running slanting round the earth.
Before us was the Hestmand, or Horseman, who bridles his rocky steed with the polar circle.
Northern Travel | Bayard TaylorOne could as easily make a dogma accepted on the equator as the polar circle.
Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary | VoltaireThe elk is only found on this, and the rein-deer on the other, side of the polar circle in Europe and in Asia.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VIII (of 10) | Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
British Dictionary definitions for polar circle
a term for either the Arctic Circle, Antarctic Circle
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Scientific definitions for polar circle
The Arctic Circle or the Antarctic Circle.
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