circumferential highways around cities.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : a circumferential manner of speech.    From Dictionary.com. 

The sagging skin may drape in layers around the body (a condition called circumferential excess).    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Weather - Lexington, KY] Reference

The end-cut turning tool is used for machining on the circumferential surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [2. Design and types of turning tools to be used] Reference

To reduce their circumferential measures, people need to be educated, not taxed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fred Hahn: Sugar, Sugar.] Reference

The circumferential speed of the drill should not much exceed 10 feet per minute.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Laboratory Arts] Reference

It's circumferential all the way around your body pulling up like a pair of pantyhose.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2005] Reference

The Marine Reserve includes all the water within a circumferential zone 40 nautical miles wide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador] Reference

It is adjacent to the circumferential highway and an interchange is on one corner of the property.    From Wordnik.com.  [Board of Visitors minutes] Reference

Let the tool take the first cut on the circumferential surface or end face of the rotating part.    From Wordnik.com.  [3. Preparation of cylindrical turning and facing] Reference

He stood up, went a pace or so towards the circumferential wall, turned, and went back a little way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Door in the Wall, and other stories] Reference

Nor was it the bewildering array of instruments that crowded the long circumferential wall around them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Restaurant at the End of the Universe]

Far away in the circumferential wall a little doorway looked like Heaven, and he set off in a wild rush for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Door in the Wall, and other stories] Reference

Its surface of contact has two circumferential grooves, which produce a sort of water packing acting by adhesion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881] Reference

The recess in the circumferential surface is turned by a straight right-hand end-cut turning tool or hook tool.    From Wordnik.com.  [4. Recessing of external and internal grooves] Reference

It is directly adjacent to the new circumferential highway, and one corner of the property would be on the interchange.    From Wordnik.com.  [Board of Visitors minutes] Reference

Note the flaking and peeling in some of the long bones, where circumferential lamellar bone has natural cleavage lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloodstream] Reference

Their uniform circumferential stress which is the result of a taper between 1 in 10 and 1 in 20 guarantees exact true running.    From Wordnik.com.  [2. Types of Keys] Reference

Down on the grid Janet moved up on the circumferential steps behind her as she depressed the Oerlikon to the approaching target.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Breaking Wave]

That portion proposed by the Board of Control does not have any buildings, but extends from the circumferential interchange to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Board of Visitors minutes] Reference

It is within a few hundred yards of the new circumferential highway, and just off Lee Highway upon which there is public transportation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Board of Visitors minutes] Reference

It is greatest in the circumferential direction of the tree, being generally twice as great in this direction as in the radial direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

The venturi ring is held in position by a setscrew fitting into a small hole in the center of the circumferential fuel gas supply channel.    From Wordnik.com.  [6. The Gas Otto Engine] Reference

The box is rotated by gears meshing with a circumferential rack midway between gudgeons and another set of gears operate to tilt the mixer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference

Has TexDOT figured out a way to pay for more circumferential expressways?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bacon's Rebellion] Reference

I want to model meridional and circumferential rebars in cylindrical shell in abaqus cae.    From Wordnik.com.  [iMechanica - Comments] Reference

Body contouring results were evaluated using photographs and circumferential measurements.    From Wordnik.com.  [PRWeb - Daily News Feed] Reference

This latter is a circumferential panel about midway between the top and bottom of the bell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Franciscan Missions Of California] Reference

The rest will be devoted to open space, amenities, landscape, and a circumferential road around the property.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Megawide to build Belle Hotel] Reference

But, the vibration in axial direction is minute compared with the vibrations in circumferential and radial direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

But, compared with the vibrations in circumferential and radial direction, the vibration in axial direction is minute.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Fig. 2 shows the vibration mode shapes of stator in one vibration cycle (a development view in circumferential direction).    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

It is better to work at the increase of the central force than at the improvement of the circumferential manifestations of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI] Reference

The S83s nibble bridge grates like potato chips (thank you, circumferential tread groove), though not as badly as the Zippy 3s.    From Wordnik.com.  [WordPress.com News] Reference

The unit has a 360-degree circumferential inner ring of conductive microfibers permanently secured in place by the patented AEGIS (TM).    From Wordnik.com.  [ThomasNet News - Today's New Product News] Reference

In contrast, a tube expanded into double grooves will have two circumferential joints in shear, with minimal effects from heat distortion.    From Wordnik.com.  [CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries] Reference

The Michelin NBT tire possesses a circumferential crown reinforcement that produces a flatter footprint than those of conventional bias tires.    From Wordnik.com. Reference