Usually means: Surrounding or lying around something.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word circumjacent:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. circumjacent: Merriam-Webster
  2. circumjacent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. circumjacent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. circumjacent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. circumjacent: Wordnik
  6. circumjacent: Wiktionary
  7. circumjacent: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Circumjacent, circumjacent: Dictionary.com
  9. Circumjacent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. circumjacent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Circumjacent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. circumjacent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. circumjacent: FreeDictionary.org
  14. circumjacent: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  15. circumjacent: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Circumjacent: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. Circumjacent: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. circumjacent: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (circumjacent)

▸ adjective:  (literary, archaic) Lying or located in the area arround something.

Similar:
circumadjacent, circumterraneous, circumambient, circumstant, around, interjacent, circumspatial, subadjacent, adjacent, circumarticular, more...

Opposite:
distant, remote, separate, removed

Types:
adjacent, neighboring, contiguous, abutting, more...

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Similar:
circumadjacent, circumterraneous, circumambient, circumstant, around, interjacent, circumspatial, subadjacent, adjacent, circumarticular, more...

Opposite:
distant, remote, separate, removed

Types:
adjacent, neighboring, contiguous, abutting, more...



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