circulation
The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
Other meanings
The act of passing from place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission.
Currency; circulating coins; notes, bills, etc., current for coin.
“The new bills will come into circulation next Friday.”
Related words
- cerebrocirculation
- circulation desk
- circulational
- circulationary
- circulationism
- circulationist
- cocirculation
- macrocirculation
- malcirculation
- microcirculation
- miscirculation
- noncirculation
Word history
From Latin "circulatio".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “circulation” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.