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What does circumscription mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of circumscribing or the quality of being circumscribed.
  2. Anything that circumscribes or a circumscribed area.
  3. (taxonomy) The definition of what does and does not belong to a given taxon, from a particular taxonomic viewpoint or taxonomic system.
  4. An electoral district; used often in texts treating electoral systems in Romance countries.
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The agreement covers the whole of the circumscription of the port within the Community boundaries.
It would not do to allege our human inability to conceive, or in imagination to draw, such a circumscription.
This is because the limits of the circumscription of an ICZN-taxon can only be approximated using the species and diagnostic characters listed by the author.
This circumscription established the provincial collective entities respectively.
One example is what the American computer scientist John McCarthy called reasoning by circumscription.
They were sensible that this province admitted not of any exact boundary or circumscription.

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