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| angelfish |
any of several types of related tropical fishes having bright colors, winglike fins, and short, circular bodies. |
| around |
so as to make a circular route or pattern outside of (something). [1/13 definitions] |
| banjo |
a musical instrument with a circular body, a long neck, and four or five strings that are plucked or strummed. |
| bent1 |
not having the proper shape of a thing, as by not being perfectly straight, flat, or circular. [1/4 definitions] |
| bullring |
the circular floor of this arena. [1/2 definitions] |
| buzz saw |
a power-operated circular saw. |
| carousel |
a rotating, circular conveyor, such as an airline baggage conveyor or a revolving household rack for spices. [1/2 definitions] |
| caterpillar |
(cap.) trademark for a machine propelled by wheels moving within circular tracks mounted on its sides, such as a tractor or tank. [1/2 definitions] |
| circuit |
a usu. circular line or route around an enclosed area. [2/8 definitions] |
| circularize |
to make circular or round. [1/3 definitions] |
| cirque |
a circular basin or hollow in an upper end of a mountain valley sometimes containing a pond. |
| coin |
a small, flat, and often circular piece of metal used as money. [1/5 definitions] |
| conic section |
in geometry, a curve, such as an ellipse, hyperbola, or parabola, created by the intersection of a plane and a right circular cone. |
| crater |
a bowl-shaped depression with a raised rim, such as the mouth of a volcano or geyser, or the circular depressions on the surface of the moon, usu. with a mountain at their center. [1/3 definitions] |
| crown glass |
an old form of circular window glass made by blowing a globe and whirling it into a flat disk. [1/2 definitions] |
| cupola |
a dome, esp. one that covers all of the underlying structure, as of a circular or hexagonal room. [1/2 definitions] |
| cycloid |
circular. [1/3 definitions] |
| cyclorama |
a large composite picture put on the wall of a circular room to appear in a natural perspective to a person in the center of the room. [1/2 definitions] |
| cylinder |
a solid figure with a shape similar to that of a can, a round flat cake, or a round tube with closed ends. A cylinder has parallel circular faces joined by one curved face. |
| cymbal |
a concave circular percussion instrument of brass or bronze, played either in pairs that are struck together or singly with drumsticks or brushes. |
| diameter |
the width of any approximately circular, spherical, or cylindrical object. [1/3 definitions] |
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