English

Noun

circumposition ‎(plural circumpositions)

1. (chiefly technical) The act of positioning something around something else; or the state of being so positioned
   • 2007, T. Lim et al., “Factors affecting user performance in haptic assembly”, in Virtual Reality, volume 11, number 4:

     Ho and Boothroyd (1979) studied the intraposition of a peg into a hole and the circumposition of a part with a hole onto a peg.

2. (linguistics) A pair of adpositions that occur on either side of the complement
   • 1982, Ehsan Yar-Shater, Encyclopaedia Iranica, volume 2, page 388:

     Ardestani has some postpositions: da "in," rd "for," and circumpositions: az.... da "from," pes... da "before," etc.

3. The act of circumposing.

Derived terms

• circumpositional

Related terms

• adposition
• ambiposition
• circumpose
• infraposition
• interposition
• intraposition
• postposition
• preposition
• superposition

References

• J[ohn] A. Simpson and E[dward] S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.