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circumpolar (adjective) (not comparable)
Pertaining to being located or living around or near one or both poles of Earth or another planet.
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Antarctic Circumpolar Current (s) (noun), Antarctic Circumpolar Currents (pl)
The world's largest ocean current which circles the globe and feeds cold water into the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.
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circumpolar star (s) (noun), circumpolar stars (pl)
A star, asterism, or constellation that is close enough to the celestial pole that, depending on the latitude at which a person is observing, it never appears to set: Circumpolar stars are those that are within a circumpolar circle in which the size is determined by the viewer's latitude.
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