circumposition
English
Etymology
circum- + position. From Latin circumpositio, from circumpōno (“I put round”).
Noun
circumposition (countable and uncountable, plural circumpositions)
- (chiefly technical) The act of positioning something around something else; or the state of being so positioned
- 2007, T. Lim et al., “Factors affecting user performance in haptic assembly”, in Virtual Reality, volume 11, number 4:
- Ho and Boothroyd (1979) studied the intraposition of a peg into a hole and the circumposition of a part with a hole onto a peg.
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- (linguistics) A pair of adpositions that occur on either side of the complement
- 1982, Ehsan Yar-Shater, Encyclopaedia Iranica, volume 2, page 388:
- Ardestani has some postpositions: da "in," rd "for," and circumpositions: az.... da "from," pes... da "before," etc.
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- The act of circumposing.
Derived terms
- circumpositional
Related terms
- adposition
- ambiposition
- circumpose
- infraposition
- interposition
- intraposition
- postposition
- preposition
- superposition
References
- “circumposition” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.