Meaning & use
circumnavigating
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Sailing or traveling all the way around something, especially the globe.
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The crew spent eleven months circumnavigating the globe by sailboat.
Engineers designed the drone for circumnavigating tall buildings automatically.
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From the Latin circum, 'around', and navigare, 'to sail'; originally used for sea voyages, now applied more broadly.
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encirclinggoing around
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