To include in a circular or spherical space.
noun.
The line that bounds a circle; by extension, the bounding line of any regular plane curvilinear figure; a periphery: as, the circumference of a circle or an ellipse. The circumference of a sphere is that of a great circle of the sphere.
noun.
Hence Loosely, any bounding line: as, the circumference of a city.
noun.
The space included in a circle; anything circular in form.
noun.
A going about; circumlocution.