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surrounding

verb
/səˈɹaʊndɪŋ/

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of surround

  2. An outlying area

    An outlying area; area in proximity to something.

  3. An environment.

    • It was inevitable that German music should leave its impress upon the song of the Jew, that the Jew's spirit should be imbued with the musical scale and style of his surrounding.
    • They require a surrounding which keeps them from sinking into apathy through tasks which they are able to solve and duties they can carry out.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at surrounding. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at surrounding. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at surrounding

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA