English Dictionary

circumscribe

/ˈsɜː.kəm.skɹaɪb/

verb

To draw a line around; to encircle. / To limit narrowly; to restrict. / (geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.

They circumscribe the park with a fence.

意味（1）

To draw a line around; to encircle.

意味（2）

To limit narrowly; to restrict.

Well, I promise you to circumscribe her conquests as much as possible by extending my own, returned Henrietta. It will be an easy task; for Miss Churchill does not do 'the honours of her eyes.' I often tell her her beauty is quite wasted upon her.

意味（3）

(geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.