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| NOUN: | 1. An area regularly covered, as by a policeman or reporter: beat, round, route. See TERRITORY. 2. A closed plane curve everywhere equidistant from a fixed point or something shaped like this: band1, circle, disk, gyre, ring1, wheel. Archaic : orb. See GEOMETRY. 3. A course, process, or journey that ends where it began or repeats itself: circle, cycle, orbit, round, tour, turn. See REPETITION. 4. A line around a closed figure or area: ambit, circumference, compass, perimeter, periphery. See EDGE. 5. A group of athletic teams that play each other: association, conference, league, loop. See GROUP. 6. Circular movement around a point or about an axis: circulation, circumvolution, gyration, revolution, rotation, turn, wheel, whirl. See GEOMETRY, REPETITION.
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