Definitions for circumscription
ˌsɜr kəmˈskrɪp ʃəncir·cum·scrip·tion

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. circumscriptionnoun

   the act of circumscribing

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. circumscriptionnoun

   the act of circumscribing or the quality of being circumscribed

2. circumscriptionnoun

   anything that circumscribes or a circumscribed area

3. circumscriptionnoun

   the definition of what does and does not belong to a given taxon, from a particular taxonomic viewpoint or taxonomic system.

   The circumscription in the APG system of the family Malvaceae includes the former families Bombacaceae, Sterculiaceae and Tiliaceae.

4. circumscriptionnoun

   An electoral district; used often in texts treating electoral systems in Romance countries.

5. Etymology: circumscriptio.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Circumscriptionnoun

   Etymology: circumscriptio, Latin.

   1. Determination of particular form or magnitude.

   In the circumscription of many leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds, nature affects a regular figure. John Ray, on the Creation.

   2. Limitation; boundary; contraction; confinement.

   I would not my unhoused free condition,
   Put into circumscription and confine. William Shakespeare, Othello.

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1. circumscription

   Circumscription is a concept, method or strategy of limiting, restricting, or defining something very specifically. It can also refer to the process of drawing a line around something, setting a boundary, or defining the scope of an idea, concept, or physical entity. In logic and artificial intelligence, circumscription is a non-monotonic logic used to deal with default reasoning. In archaeology and anthropology, circumscription theory explains the sequence of changes that societies undergo.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Circumscriptionnoun

   an inscription written around anything

2. Circumscriptionnoun

   the exterior line which determines the form or magnitude of a body; outline; periphery

3. Circumscriptionnoun

   the act of limiting, or the state of being limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit

4. Etymology: [L. circumscriptio. See Circumscribe.]

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1. Circumscription

   Circumscription is a non-monotonic logic created by John McCarthy to formalize the common sense assumption that things are as expected unless otherwise specified. Circumscription was later used by McCarthy in an attempt to solve the frame problem. In its original first-order logic formulation, circumscription minimizes the extension of some predicates, where the extension of a predicate is the set of tuples of values the predicate is true on. This minimization is similar to the closed world assumption that what is not known to be true is false. The original problem considered by McCarthy was that of missionaries and cannibals: there are three missionaries and three cannibals on one bank of a river; they have to cross the river using a boat that can only take two, with the additional constraint that cannibals must never outnumber the missionaries on either bank. The problem considered by McCarthy was not that of finding a sequence of steps to reach the goal, but rather that of excluding conditions that are not explicitly stated. For example, the solution “go half a mile south and cross the river on the bridge” is intuitively not valid because the statement of the problem does not mention such a bridge. On the other hand, the existence of this bridge is not excluded by the statement of the problem either. That the bridge does not exist is a consequence of the implicit assumption that the statement of the problem contains everything that is relevant to its solution. Explicitly stating that a bridge does not exist is not a solution to this problem, as there are many other exceptional conditions that should be excluded

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of circumscription in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of circumscription in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=circumscription
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Circumscription
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=circumscription
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/circumscription
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=circumscription