deambulation

See also: déambulation

English

Etymology

Latin deambulatio.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /diːæmbjuːˈleɪʃən/

Noun

deambulation

1. (obsolete) A walking abroad; a promenading.
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, edited by Ernest Rhys, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC:

     Touching suche exercises, as many be used within the house, or in the shadowe, (as is the olde maner of speking), as deambulations, laborynge with poyses made of leadde or other metall

2. A cycle or revolution during which a programmable machine performs various functions
   • 1914, Raymond Roussel, translated by Rupert Copeland Cuningham, Locus Solus:

     Then, declaring that, according to his recollection, a very long wait would be necessary before the [contraption's] next automatic deambulation could be witnessed, Canterel, with measured steps, led us to another part of the vast establishment.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “deambulation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)