Word: circularity
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...water. A few steps away are the first of 70 small tanks containing such varied and intriguing species as the colorful little clownfish, the horned cowfish and the ferocious piranha. Appropriately, the back panels of these tanks are curved since the fish swim in circular paths...
...memories, and almost all of the self, even to some extent its basic physical activities, finds its way to the shadow-world, too. Thus life and death become irrelevant, "friend" is a meaningless term, and "will" is undefinable. In fact, Nog is just one are of the character's circular journey through nowhere...
SIXTEEN people are sitting around a large circular table. A few private conversations have begun and ended. The sixteen are now sitting silently, looking at each other...
...coincidence, the moon's diameter will appear to be the same as the sun's tomorrow, but this is not always the case. Since the moon's orbit is not circular, there are times when the satellite passes in front of the sun but is so far from the earth that the cone of the umbra falls short of the earth's surface. When this happens, the moon will appear smaller than the sun, and at mid-eclipse, the sun will form a ring around the smaller moon-an annular eclipse...
...bush, trailed by the wealthy, red-faced "Bwana Mkubwa" (Big Boss), his bored, flirtatious wife and a long line of naked natives with rifles, cook pots and bathtubs balanced on their heads. A more accurate vision is apt to be somewhat less theatrical. Outside Nairobi's new circular Hilton Hotel (the "Tiltin' Hilton"), a gaggle of middleaged, middle-class Americans clamber into a zebra-striped minibus. Whisked off to a government-operated park, they spend the day shooting everything that moves-with cameras. On the way back, they stop to shop for souvenirs: Masai warriors' spears (forged...