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1. To find a way of avoiding restrictions imposed by a rule or law without actually breaking it.
2. To anticipate and to counter someone’s plans.
3. To encompass; literally, to enclose.
4. Any effort to get around a restriction or obstacle.

The action of circumventing; over reaching, outwitting, or getting the better of any one by craft or artifice.

1. Twisted or folded around.
2. Twisted around; rolled about.

1. A structure or tissue twisted or folded into a tortuous shape.
2. A convolution, or gyrus (a convolution on the surface of a cerebral hemisphere caused by the infolding of the cerebral cortex).

1. A turning or winding movement around a central axis.
2. An act of turning, coiling, or folding around a center, a core, or an axis.
3. A single turn, coil, or fold; a convolution.

1. To roll or wind together; to coil; to twist.
2. To roll around; to cause to revolve; to put into a circular motion.
3. To revolve or cause to revolve.

A disease marked by the presence of areas of thinning and softening in the bones of the skull and widening of the sutures and fontanelles (soft membranous gaps between the incompletely formed cranial bones of a fetus or an infant). Usually of syphilitic (syphilis) or rachitic (rickets or bending of the bones) origin.

To render a crime less aggravated, heinous, or reprehensible than it would otherwise be, or to tend to palliate or to lessen its guilt.

Such circumstances may ordinarily be shown in order to reduce a punishment or damages. In contract law, unusual or extraordinary events that prevent performance within a specified time; for example, a delay resulting from a strike by workers or suppliers.

A skin disease consisting of patches of yellowish or ivory-colored hard, dry, smooth skin.

A computer circuit built on a single and assembled on a single carbon nanotube.

The circuit is one-fifth the width of a human hair and can only be viewed under an electron microscope.

The circuit is not designed to be used in a computer chip; instead, it is a proof of the principle that allowed the research team to test the switching speed of its design.

Using this setup, researchers have claimed that they could achieve a speed of 50 megahertz, hundreds of times slower than the gigahertz speeds of silicon processors seen in most personal computers. Even so, the researchers say the circuit is 100,000 times faster than any previously recorded for a device made with a carbon nanotube, and with continued refinement they hope to push speeds beyond those possible today.

Recently reported results indicate that across the main radiation environments, including heavy ion, total dose and proton irradiation, different types of nanoscale materials and circuits may outperform their conventional counterparts.

In each case, the improvement was traced to the use of a nanoscale functional entity and its apparent radiation resiliency. These results indicate that the research direction of fundamental radiation interactions in nanoscale materials is well worth pursuing.

Localized osteoporosis of the skull associated with Paget's disease (a disease of bone occurring in the middle aged and elderly; excessive bone destruction sometimes leading to bone pain and fractures and skeletal deformities).

Surrounding the lens of the eye.

If you seek a monument, look around you.

An inscription on Sir Christopher Wren's tomb in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, England. Wren was the architect of the cathedral.

If you seek a pleasant [lovely] peninsula, look about you.

Motto of the State of Michigan, USA.