Fromcircum- +‎position. FromLatincircumpositio, fromcircumpōno(“I put round”).

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circumposition (countable anduncountable,pluralcircumpositions)

1. (chiefly technical) The act of positioning somethingaround something else; or the state of being so positioned
   • 2007, T. Limet al., “Factors affecting user performance in haptic assembly”, inVirtual Reality‎^[1], volume11, number 4:

     Ho and Boothroyd (1979) studied the intraposition of a peg into a hole and thecircumposition of a part with a hole onto a peg.

2. (linguistics) A pair ofadpositions that occur on either side of thecomplement
   • 1982, Ehsan Yar-Shater,Encyclopaedia Iranica‎^[2], volume 2, page388:

     Ardestani has some postpositions: da "in," rd "for," andcircumpositions: az.... da "from," pes... da "before," etc.

3. The act ofcircumposing.

• circumpositional

• John A. Simpson andEdmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “circumposition”, inThe Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford:Clarendon Press,→ISBN.

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