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small circle

noun

  1. a circle on a sphere, the plane of which does not pass through the center of the sphere. Compare great circle ( def 1 ).


small circle

noun

  1. a circular section of a sphere that does not contain the centre of the sphere Compare great circle
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of small circle1

First recorded in 1870–75
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The album was acclaimed in the era’s small circle of tastemakers — they were beloved at the Mercer Arts Center, a downtown club frequented by Andy Warhol.

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"My reaction really is one of alarm," he said, describing Patel as "one of Trump's henchmen from the very beginning, one of the most loyal of all of the loyalists in the small circle."

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“I have a small circle of people whose opinions I care about,” Moss said.

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During that first summer, there was a small circle of writers assigned to come up with back stories for the characters, and Javier Grillo-Marxuach was one of them.

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Decades later, Reykdal’s interviews with a small circle of those involved in the long-ago deaths gets smaller when one of them is killed, and his dissertation morphs into an all-consuming investigation.

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