Definition of "circumscription" []

• The act of circumscribing or the state of being circumscribed. (noun)
• Something, such as a limit or restriction, that circumscribes. (noun)
• A circumscribed space or area. (noun)
• A circular inscription, as on a medallion. (noun)

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• "Although Paillard's writings do not reveal whether he was aware of growing commercial interest in Magude's riverine soils at the time the mission acquired the two concessions, he anticipated a land rush that gathered pace in the circumscription from the 1920s onward."
• "McCarthy & Hayes 1969 with the need for a nonmonotonic logic, and sketches the logical ideas of domain circumscription, which is now classified as the simplest case of circumscription."
• "Accordingly, researchers in logic-based AI have put a lot of effort into developing a variety of non-monotonic reasoning formalisms, such as circumscription (McCarthy 1986), and investigating their application to the frame problem."