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CIRCUMPOLAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does circumpolar mean? 

CIRCUMPOLAR (adjective)
  The adjective CIRCUMPOLAR has 2 senses:

1. (of a celestial body) continually visible above the horizon during the entire 360 degrees of daily travelplay

2. located or found throughout a polar regionplay

  Familiarity information: CIRCUMPOLAR used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CIRCUMPOLAR (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(of a celestial body) continually visible above the horizon during the entire 360 degrees of daily travel

Context example:

a circumpolar star

Similar:

seeable; visible (capable of being seen; or open to easy view)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Located or found throughout a polar region

Similar:

polar (of or existing at or near a geographical pole or within the Arctic or Antarctic Circles)


 Context examples 


Through its data collection, the study expanded the circumpolar peat carbon pool estimate for permafrost regions by more than 50 percent.

(Certain Arctic lakes store more greenhouse gases than they release, NSF)

Its north pole is dominated by a central cyclone surrounded by eight circumpolar cyclones with diameters ranging from 2,500 to 2,900 miles (4,000 to 4,600 kilometers) across.

(Jupiter’s Jet-Streams Are Unearthly, NASA)

NGC 6503 is 18 million light-years away from us in the northern circumpolar constellation of Draco.

(Lonely Galaxy Lost in Space, NASA)

Using published data from the circumpolar Arctic, their own new field observations of Siberian permafrost and thermokarsts, radiocarbon dating, atmospheric modeling and spatial analyses, the research team studied how thawing permafrost is affecting climate change and greenhouse gas emissions.

(Certain Arctic lakes store more greenhouse gases than they release, NSF)



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