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Definition of Circuitous

Circuitous
Circuitous Cir*cu"i*tous, a. [LL. circuitosus.] Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accomplishing an end. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ness, n. Syn: Tortuous; winding; sinuous; serpentine.

Meaning of Circuitous from wikipedia

- Circuitous is an album by jazz pianist Pandelis Karayorgis, which was recorded in 2012 and released on Driff, an artist-run label co-founded by Karayorgis...
- modest grades, in hilly or mountainous terrain rails will often be laid in circuitous routes . Route length and grade requirements can be reduced by the use...
- The "circuitous diagram" from the INTERCAL Reference Manual, purportedly to explain the operation of the "select" operator...
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- 4:30 pm, he travelled back to his office in Middleton St. George by a circuitous route through the village of Croft-on-Tees, instead of simply driving...
- shortcuts where more deliberately constructed paths take a longer or more circuitous route, have gaps, or are non-existent. Once a path has been trodden out...
- and Lone Pine was proposed by local businessmen in 1923. Eventually, a circuitous route across the Sierra was built across Sherman P**** by 1976. By 1964...
- linguistic distribution. The terms "anti-Semite" or "antisemitism" came by a circuitous route to refer more narrowly to anyone who was hostile or discriminatory...
- 20th century studies is the colonial mol****es trade, which involved the circuitous trading of slaves, sugar (often in liquid form, as mol****es), and rum...