Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Located or found in one of the Polar Regions.
- adjective Astronomy Denoting a star that from a given observer's latitude never sets below the horizon.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Surrounding one of the poles of the earth or of the heavens: as, a circumpolar sea; circumpolar stars.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective About the pole; -- applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Located or found
throughout apolar region. - adjective astronomy Of a
celestial body ,continually visibleabove thehorizon during the entire 360 degrees of daily travel.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of a celestial body) continually visible above the horizon during the entire 360 degrees of daily travel
- adjective located or found throughout a polar region
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Examples
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David Malone, the president of IDRC, talks about a proposed project to create a “university of the north”, connecting people in circumpolar regions.
Global Voices in English » Update from the Harvard Forum on ICT4D 2009
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For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the green belt of dry high-altitude polar winds - the so-called circumpolar vortex - that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2010
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For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds - the so-called circumpolar vortex-that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world.
SOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists Lindsay Perigo 2010
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For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds - the so-called circumpolar vortex-that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world.
SOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists Lindsay Perigo 2010
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The subsurface current of warm water near the frozen continent, known as the circumpolar deep water, branches near the coast, and one branch hits Pine Island - which is probably why the ice there is thinning and speeding up.
Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (New Scientist: Anil A 2009
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If so, the U.S. must manage the process so it is environmentally sustainable, coordinated with circumpolar neighbors, and done with the support of local populations.
Time to Take Alaska Out of the Icebox Scott Borgerson 2011
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So one guy makes a mistake and you think that makes the scientific community as represented by NOAA, NASA, NMF, ESA, and so one all incorrect as well as the Pope, the UN, Indigenous peoples of the circumpolar regions, Island residents, and so on?
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First, what we want: permanent protection of the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge, the most biologically diverse area in the entire circumpolar North that also supports two indigenous communities, Gwich'in and Inupiat.
Subhankar Banerjee: Earth Activism: What We Don't Want Subhankar Banerjee 2011
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It left the body at death to join the circumpolar stars.
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You mean those NASA folk, and those people over at NMF, and at NOAA, and at ETA, and those circumpolar indigenous people, and those south pacific islanders, and those folks moving vessels throught the NW Passage?
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