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recirculate, v.
[re- 5 a.]
To circulate again. a. trans. To make available for reuse. b. intr. Of material: to take part in recirculation.
1916Harding & Willard Mech. Equipment Buildings I. xv. 349 The air is simply re-circulated, no fresh air being taken into the heating system from the outside. 1934W. Trinks Industrial Furnaces (ed. 3) I. vi. 392 In several designs of fuel-fired furnaces, burned gases are drawn from the heating chamber by a fan and recirculated, mixing with the fresh combustion gases. 1958Jrnl. Amer. Water Wks. Assoc. L. 1025/2 Treated sewage can be recirculated from the bottom of the final tank to the wet well where it is mixed with the incoming raw sewage. 1959Motor Manual (ed. 36) v. 107 The balls recirculate (thereby reducing the rate of wear) and their use reduces friction in the mechanism to a minimum. 1964Proc. R. Soc. B. CLIX. 262 The few large lymphocytes which re-circulate from the blood to the lymph do so for only a brief period. 1967E. Chambers Photolitho-Offset ix. 127 The machine has a unique roller-jet agitation..allowing for the developer to be recirculated. 1977Jrnl. Neuropath. & Exper. Neurol. XXXVI. 471 Microglial cells are continually replaced by circulating mononuclear cells and may, themselves, also recirculate.
Hence reˈcirculated ppl. a., reˈcirculating vbl. n.
1916Harding & Willard Mech. Equipment Buildings I. xvi. 442 This apparatus is designed for use where maximum cooling of the air by evaporation in addition to air cleansing is desired with recirculated spray water. 1947T. N. Adlam Radiant Heating 5 It can be arranged to discontinue recirculating and admit all fresh air after the correct room temperature has been attained. 1967Punch 5 July 22/2 Once he has overcome in training the psychological objection to drinking recirculated fluids, the astronaut will not be bothered by such trivialities. |