circumvolation

English

Etymology

From Latin circumvolate, circumvolatum (“to fly around”), from circum + volare (“to fly”).

Noun

circumvolation (countable and uncountable, plural circumvolations)

1. The act of flying round.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “circumvolation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)