The natural cycle of procreation, birth, life, death and predation.

A ritual in which participants join hands in a circle and pray for something, often as part of a vigil.

The equivalent of an additional electrical circuit or wire, in reality not existing, obtained by certain arrangements of real circuits, as in some multiplex telegraph systems.

Part of the lower floor of a theatre with seats at the rear of the parquet and beneath the galleries.

(gearing) The outline of the smallest cross section of a hyperboloid of revolution.

(mathematics) A minimum circle on a surface of revolution, cut out by a plane perpendicular to the axis.

plural of circus-goer

Alternative form of circusgoer

(UK) An official record that lists the engagements carried out by the monarch and Royal Family of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, and appointments to their staff and to the court.

(anatomy) The circulation of blood through a network of vessels that is developed through enlargement of secondary vessels and use of existing anastomoses between adjacent vessels when a major vein or artery is functionally impaired, as by obstruction.