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incircle

[ in-sur-kuhl ]

noun

, Geometry.
  1. a circle inscribed within a triangle.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of incircle1

First recorded in 1880–85; in- 1 + circle
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Example Sentences

In 1984, it established InCircle, the industry’s first customer loyalty program, which now has 144,000 members and generated 40 percent of the company’s total revenue in the latest fiscal year.

From Time

Independent of the benefits which would arise from the general accuracy, which would thus incircle the whole œconomy of the design, discoveries would be made wherever frauds or embezzlements took place, while the labour and expence, which such a task might impose, would be compensated one hundred fold, in the National advantages which it would produce.

Jupiter hath foure, that incircle his body with their motion.

What Launcelot du Lacs, Tristans, Leonnois, Arturs, Ysaises, and feats of the Table Ronde, stand closely wedged within the brass-wired doors that incircle this and every other apartment!

But when the mornings dewie locks drunk vp A mistie moysture from the Oceans face, Then might he see the source of sorrowes cup, Plainly prefigured in that hatefull place; And all the miseries that mortals sup From their great Grandsire Adams band, disgrace;   For all that did incircle him, was his foe,   And that incircled, modell of true woe.

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