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What is the noun for circumscribing?

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circumscription
  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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  6. Examples:
    1. “He was meditating rather sadly upon the circumscription of human fame.”
      “This circumscription established the provincial collective entities respectively.”
      “It would not do to allege our human inability to conceive, or in imagination to draw, such a circumscription.”
circumscriber
  1. One who, or that which, circumscribes.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “There is more work, however, that needs to be done to fully understand the effect this variable has as a circumscriber of race.”
circumscriptions
  1. plural of circumscription
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The skiagram, or drawing in simple outlines, as in the circumscriptions of shadows.”
      “Cameroon boasts of 24 ecclesiastical circumscriptions, 816 parishes and 3,630 pastoral centres of other kinds.”
      “Further studies are needed to clarify species circumscriptions.”
circumscribers
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