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Meaning of "traffic circle" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TRAFFIC CIRCLE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRAFFIC CIRCLE

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Traffic circle is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TRAFFIC CIRCLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

traffic circle

Traffic circle

A traffic circle is a type of intersection that directs both turning and through traffic onto a one-way circular roadway, usually built for the purposes of traffic calming or aesthetics. Contrary to a roundabout, where entering traffic always yields to traffic already in the circle and merges in directly, the entrances to traffic circles are 3-way intersections either controlled by stop signs, traffic signals, or not formally controlled. Colloquially, however, roundabouts are sometimes referred to as circles. In the U.S., traffic engineers typically use the term rotary for large scale circular junctions between expressways or controlled-access highways. Most often entering a rotary is not a turning movement and in many instances entering traffic has the right of way. Rotaries typically feature high speeds inside the circle and on the approaches. Distinct from roundabouts, traffic circles and rotaries may also have an interior lane that requires traffic on it to change lanes in order to exit the circle. Both traffic circles and rotaries are considered obsolete from safety and traffic flow perspectives.

Definition of traffic circle in the English dictionary

The definition of traffic circle in the dictionary is a road junction in which traffic streams circulate around a central island Also called : roundabout.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRAFFIC CIRCLE

traffic calming
traffic cone
traffic control
traffic control tower
traffic controller
traffic cop
traffic court
traffic diversion
traffic duty
traffic engineering
traffic holdup
traffic island
traffic jam
traffic light
traffic lights
traffic offence
traffic pattern
traffic police
traffic policeman
traffic policemen

WORDS THAT END LIKE TRAFFIC CIRCLE

Arctic Circle
circle
come full circle
crop circle
dress circle
encircle
family circle
golden circle
great circle
half-circle
inner circle
Magic Circle
pitch circle
small circle
social circle
squared circle
stone circle
turning circle
vicious circle
virtuous circle
winner´s circle

Synonyms and antonyms of traffic circle in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «traffic circle» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TRAFFIC CIRCLE

Find out the translation of traffic circle to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of traffic circle from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «traffic circle» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

交通圈
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

rotonda
570 millions of speakers

English

traffic circle
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

यातायात चक्र
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

دائرة المرور
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

трафика круг
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

rotatória
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ট্রাফিক বৃত্ত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

rond
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

bulatan trafik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kreisel
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

環状交差点
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

로터리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lingkaran lalu lintas
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vòng tròn giao thông
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ட்ராஃபிக் வட்டம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रहदारी मंडळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

trafik çemberi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

rotatoria
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rondo
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

трафіку коло
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

giratoriu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κύκλο κυκλοφορίας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verkeersirkel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

rondellen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

rundkjøringen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of traffic circle

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TRAFFIC CIRCLE»

The term «traffic circle» is quite widely used and occupies the 48.788 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TRAFFIC CIRCLE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «traffic circle» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «traffic circle» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about traffic circle

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRAFFIC CIRCLE»

Discover the use of traffic circle in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to traffic circle and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Classroom of Choice: Giving Students what They Need and ...
The Behavioral Traffic Circle Expanding on the car analogy, I developed an activity I call the Behavioral Traffic Circle. You begin this activity by dividing the class up into pairs or small groups, giving each a toy car and a big sheet of chart paper ...
Jonathan C. Erwin, 2004
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Business, Economics, Financial Sciences, and Management
And R is within 150m.generally, a smaller circle's r is within 50m, while it can be 150m at largest, say Paris Arc De Triomphe traffic circle. 3.2 Construction of the Traffic Circle Capacity Model By the model of the traffic capacity of traffic circle, we ...
Min Zhu, 2012
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Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and ...
For instance, the cars already within the traffic circle unquestionably have the right of way. Incoming drivers rarely violate this rule, but if they do, a physical altercation could ensue, with the vehicles pulled over and the drivers making fools of ...
Sam Carpenter, 2011
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Discover the Hidden New Jersey
This is a first that most drivers in New Jersey probably wish would have been a " last" — the invention of the first traffic circle. Today, of course, traffic circles are distinguished mainly by the amount of expletives muttered by approaching drivers.
Russell Roberts, 1995
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Data-Intensive Computing: Architectures, Algorithms, and ...
To explore the data comprising this event in more detail, the analyst turns to Traffic Circle. Traffic Circle is running in real-time mode on her desktop, and she observes the patterns to determine whether this view of all traffic looks similar to its ...
Ian Gorton, Deborah K. Gracio, 2012
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United States Marines in Battle An-Najaf, August 2004
The area consisted of an urban mix of two- to five-story buildings, complicated by open areas around the traffic circle and the police compound. The proximity of the cemetery, the militia stronghold in the northwest quadrant of the traffic circle, ...
Francis X. Kozlowski, Defense Department (COR)
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Law and Democracy in Neil MacCormick's Legal and Political ...
Here is a slightly different case, also a traffic example. In England, traffic at intersections is often controlled by traffic circles (roundabouts). They are used less frequently in the United States. For a traffic circle to work, there has to be a rule about ...
Agustín José Menéndez, John Erik Fossum, 2011
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Tales from Pinehurst: Stories from the Mecca of American Golf
Like many things that have been introduced in Pinehurst, there is a European flair, including the oft-used method for diverting busy motorists in the correct direction—the Pinehurst traffic circle. First introduced in the 1950s, the Pinehurst traffic ...
Robert Hartman, 2012
9
The P. Word: Provence Traps and Initiates the Unwary
God, I thought, she sounds as if she's been to French Traffic-Circle School. We succeeded in dispensing with another traffic circle, and I shifted from third to second without a screech. According to Margaret, we had just crossed the Sorgue ...
Renee Rosch Lewis, 2009
10
Corporate Policy and Governance: How Organizations Self-Organize
The third means of regulation is perfect self-organization and -regula- tion of the traffic through a traffic circle, with the clear rule that vehicles approaching the circle give way to those on it. As a simple work of con- struction, it is applicable to  ...
Fredmund Malik, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRAFFIC CIRCLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term traffic circle is used in the context of the following news items.
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Glenn McConnell lane near Bees Ferry will close for traffic circle work
A lane of the Glenn McConnell Parkway at the new West Ashley Circle near Bees Ferry Road will be closed for several nights starting Sunday. The right lane ... «Charleston Post Courier, Jul 15»
2
Marijuana found growing in Vancouver traffic circle
It's hard to control where weeds grow but one particular kind of weed (yep, that kind) was found recently in a traffic circle in Vancouver. The healthy-looking ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
3
VIDEO: Learn how to use a traffic circle
With the opening of the Cove Lane Interchange in Lake Charles on Wednesday, more Lake Area residents are going to be using traffic circles. «KPLC-TV, Jul 15»
4
After community rallies, Riverside traffic circle reconstruction funding …
Funding for reconstruction of the Riverside traffic circle in 2016 has been restored to the county's capital program. The expenditure had been pushed back to ... «RiverheadLOCAL, Jun 15»
5
Suffolk restores funding to rebuild a traffic circle in Riverside
Suffolk County officials have restored $4 million in funding to reconfigure a congested traffic circle in Riverside next year, a project tied to a planned economic ... «Newsday, May 15»
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Ontario pledges up to $1-billion for Hamilton LRT, work to start in 2019
The LRT will run from McMaster to the Queenston traffic circle, passing through the central business district. A spur up James Street North will connect it to the ... «The Globe and Mail, May 15»
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Midwood Residents Say Traffic Circle Is An Accident Waiting To …
There is a park in the middle of the traffic circle, but residents said they are afraid to cross the street to get to it. A break in the fence still marks the spot where a ... «CBS Local, Apr 15»
8
Conway traffic circle causing accidents
Neighbors next to the intersection of Irby Drive and Poteete Drive in Conway say a traffic circle used to slow down traffic is actually causing more problems than ... «THV 11, Mar 15»
9
Traffic circle under review
The Sherwood Drive and Broadmoor Blvd traffic circle is in the top five intersections in Strathcona County with the most traffic collisions. Photo courtesy of ... «Sherwood Park News, Mar 15»
10
Speedway roundabout ready for traffic
Speedway's newest strip of circular road is now ready for traffic. On Sunday, state and ... The traffic circle is poised to open at 5 a.m. Monday. Georgetown Road ... «Indianapolis Star, Nov 14»

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