The word 'circumferential' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that goes around or surrounds a particular thing or area. Example: The circumferential highway that loops around the city is often congested during rush hour.
In 1996 he saw a new "circumferential pattern" as jobs shifted to the suburbs, so the baby-boomers were now sitting in jams "on the beltways".
The re-emitted light is trapped inside the plastic sheet by a process called total internal reflection, which causes it to bounce between the sheet's surfaces without being able to escape, and thus guides it towards the circumferential solar cell.
Silk also comes in a variety of forms; the radial strands of a web, for example, have a different composition from the circumferential ones because the stresses and strains on them are different.The problem with the products of evolution, though, is that they are honed to do jobs for the creature they come from, not for humanity.
A 1947 coal-mining version followed, and in 1949 a coal saw was used to cut a circumferential slot in chalk for 33-foot-diameter tunnels at Fort Randall Dam in South Dakota.
The predominant motor action of the small intestine is the segmenting contraction, which is a localized circumferential contraction, principally of the circular muscle of the intestinal wall.
Currents near the continent result in a circumferential belt of surface-water divergence accompanied by upwelling of deeper water masses.
The fresh fuel mixture is forced into the cylinder through circumferential ports by a rotary blower (see figure) in the two-stroke-cycle engine of a so-called uniflow type.
Reliable estimates are that some two-thirds of the vehicles in central business districts are only passing through and should have been routed on circumferential highways.
The term as generally used outside Lesotho refers to a particular range that trends off to the southwest from the Great Escarpment of the Drakensberg Range, which forms the northeastern arc of Lesotho's circumferential boundary with South Africa.
As new cells are continuously added to the inside of the cambium, the cambium increases laterally (in circumference) to keep pace with the circumferential growth of the stem.
Combustion can be carried out in a series of nearly cylindrical elements spaced around the circumference of the engine called cans, or in a single annular passage with fuel-injection nozzles at various circumferential positions.
