Definition:Circumscribe/Also defined as
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Circumscribe: Also defined as
Some sources are not particularly careful to specify that the vertices of the circumscribed figure must all lie on the boundary of the circumscribing figure, but merely that one encloses the other.
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): circumscribed
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): circumscribed