Adjective : a circular tower. ,a circular plane. ,the circular rotation of the earth. ,the circular succession of the seasons. ,a circular route.    From Dictionary.com. 

The gas giant planet's orbit is somewhat non-circular.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ripped to Shreds, Exoplanet Suffers Painful Death | Universe Today] Reference

Since then I've defined what I mean in a non-circular way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunny and a Book] Reference

But there are other, non-circular ways to appeal to the idea of the contract.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych] Reference

The problem appears in attempts to define consciousness in a non-circular way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nishida Kitarô] Reference

Applying logic and reason, there simply is no non-circular way for you to do that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ohio: They're baaaack (again) - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The authors use the term “privilege” without defining it in a non-circular way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Point of Privilege « Whatever] Reference

Bald-faced assertions not backed up with objective, non-circular evidence is the problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Chuck Norris Sets The Facts Straight: Evolution Is ‘Not Real. It Is Not The Way We Got Here’] Reference

Joe Colquitt (thanks!) just sent me details of Cunningham Industries, experts in non-circular gears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strange gears] Reference

I challenge you or anyone to define time in a non-circular way and in a way distinct from “configuration.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?] Reference

Of course, an interpretation should be precise, unambiguous, non-circular, and use well-understood primitives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interpretations of Probability] Reference

Just as the question ˜why be rational?™ may have no non-circular answer, the same may be true of the question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simplicity] Reference

Spelling out what the ideal epistemic conditions are, in a non-circular fashion, has of course been a main problem for this view.    From Wordnik.com.  [Him] Reference

Sure, everyone uses the wheel, until someone invents the tractor tread, or the constant-width non-circular cam, or the air-cushion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tour de Force] Reference

Eventually Sky turned off the signal to the non-circular ariels and it would be some years until I was stiff by the ITV Digital liquidation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feeling Listless - "Taking the credit for your second symphony."] Reference

Still, we have no choice but to trust them and we shouldn't take our inability to offer a non-circular argument for them to impugn them in any way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epistemological Problems of Memory] Reference

Giving a non-circular specification of the content of the modal fiction is one of the very difficult challenges facing the strong modal fictionalist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modal Fictionalism] Reference

For present purposes, I'll catalogue the various accounts according to two main kinds of non-circular strategies that commentators attribute to Descartes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference

Although I desire a space-faring civilization as much as anyone who ever lived (maybe more), I've never seen any non-circular reasoning in answer to that question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why the Moon? Here's Why. - NASA Watch] Reference

Circular Logic is a subcategory of Begging the Question but a non-circular example could be "I keep a carrot under my pillow because unicorns like carrots and I want to catch one.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama's Fundraising Set To Overshadow Hillary's Yet Again] Reference

The principal challenge for such theories is to explicate this normative notion in a non-circular way that does not undermine the need for a response-dependent theory in the first place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Anti-Realism] Reference

Coordinate non-circular program events in MMS for the members.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com -]

Just wondering if anyone knows a way to create non-circular gears in inventor.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Discussion Groups: Message List - root] Reference

Something bigger than Mercury that is in a non-circular orbit and kicked around by the giant planets.    From Wordnik.com.  [msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines] Reference

And leaving aside the non-circular tubes (usually though they should be, in common day parlance nobody calls them).    From Wordnik.com. Reference

I doubt that any coherent and non-circular definition of a distinctively "black" culture in this country is to be had.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cato Daily Podcast] Reference

(albeit inner), the only non-regressive, non-circular way to explain behavior is to appeal to something non-behavioral.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behaviorism] Reference

He formulated the torsion bending problem of non-circular beams with fixed ends with the help of a differential equation.    From Wordnik.com.  [iMechanica - Comments] Reference

These strongly non-circular orbits utterly surprised astronomers ... they had expected that other planetary systems would be just like ours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daylight Atheism] Reference

This challenge, and the challenge of building a non-circular, pressurized fuselage structure, have been the initial focuses of research since then.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

What possible meaningful non-circular definition can “high genetic quality”? have?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Study: Ugly Children Get Shortchanged by Parents] Reference

I just don’t see any convincing case that the top 400 families earn their wealth in some non-circular sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » 400 Families Earned an Average of $345 Million Each in 2007] Reference

My Analogy wasn’t meant to prove ID, but rather to prove that the argument given by Meyer was in a reasonable, understandable, and non-circular form.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Office of Sternberg Coddling - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Or rather, you haven’t offered a non-circular explanation (” they’re unlawful because they’re against the law” is not really an explanation). fostert says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Marc Thiessen: Obama is Too Good at Killing Terrorists] Reference

It’s statements like this that make me skeptical of evolutionary (pop) psychology - what possible meaningful (non-circular) definition can “high genetic quality” have?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Study: Ugly Children Get Shortchanged by Parents] Reference

It’s statements like this that make me skeptical of evolutionary (pop) psychology - what possible meaningful (non-circular) definition can “high genetic quality”? have?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Study: Ugly Children Get Shortchanged by Parents] Reference

"causation" in non-circular terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

None of these are non-circular explanations).    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunny and a Book] Reference