circulation
Pluralcirculations (some meanings)
- 1The way blood moves around the body, reaching all the cells and tissues.
Like water moving through pipes all around a house, reaching every room.
Good circulation keeps your hands and feet warm in cold weather.
Gentle exercise can improve the circulation in your legs.
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- 2The way something moves from place to place or person to person.
Like a story that gets passed from one friend to the next until everyone knows it.
The circulation of fresh air keeps the room from feeling stuffy.
Posters helped the circulation of the news through the small town.
Similarflow, movement, spread, dissemination, transmission
Oppositestagnation
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- 3The coins and paper money that people are using to buy and sell things.
Like trading cards that are out being used in games, not the ones stored away in a drawer.
Millions of old coins are still in circulation across the country.
New banknotes entered circulation at the start of the month.
- 4How widely something is spread, or how many people it reaches.
Like counting how many homes a flyer reaches when it is handed out.
The magazine has a large circulation across the whole country.
The newspaper's circulation grew quickly after the redesign.
Similarreadership, distribution, reach
- 5Movement around in a circle, ending up back where it started.
Like a toy train going around a loop of track and coming back to the start.
The circulation of the second hand around the clock marks each passing minute.
Astronomers measured the circulation of the moon around the earth.
Similarrevolution, rotation, circuit
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- 6The movement of sap through the parts of a plant.
Like juice moving up a straw to reach the top of the glass.
Warm spring weather speeds up the circulation of sap in the tree.
Damage to the bark can stop the circulation inside the trunk.
Similarflow
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Origin
It comes from Latin "circulatio." You can also see it as "circulate" plus "-ion."