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US
/ˌsɝkəmˈvɛntʃən/
]
[ UK /sˌɜːkəmvˈɛnʃən/ ]
[ UK /sˌɜːkəmvˈɛnʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the act of evading by going around
How To Use circumvention In A Sentence
- On the contrary, it turns to thoughts of sulphur tablets and camomile tea and other sickly or disagreeable circumventions of the "creakiness" of the human body. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends
- Computer programs in the form of firmware that enable wireless telephone handsets to connect to a wireless telephone communication network, when circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of lawfully connecting to a wireless telephone communication network. Boing Boing: November 19, 2006 - November 25, 2006 Archives
- We've been vocal critics of these companies, and so they all block us, using rubrics like "nudity" or "circumvention" -- because if you have one nude thumbnail or one page about circumvention, then all the tens of thousands of pages on your site will be blocked. Boing Boing
- But there might be room in circumvention and DRM to apply his analysis. Archive 2009-04-01
- Up for discussion still is how to treat the circumvention of copyright protection mechanisms.
- In this manner, it was argued that at the core of economic perseity, are non-predeterminable institutional innovations that act as channels of policy/regulatory circumvention. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
- Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and that require the original media or hardware as a condition of access, when circumvention is accomplished for the purpose of preservation or archival reproduction of published digital works by a library or archive. Boing Boing: November 19, 2006 - November 25, 2006 Archives
- Jewish Jesuitism, the same practical Jesuitism which Bauer discovers in the Talmud, is the relation of the world of self-interest to the laws governing that world, the chief art of which consists in the cunning circumvention of these laws. The common denominator
- For 70 years it has had a Persian-language radio station, which is hard to block because it is short-wave; the BBC also has a Persian website, which is blocked in Iran but accessible via circumvention tools. In Skies Over Iran, a Battle for Control of Satellite TV
- And then you have a standard that circumvention is okay if you’re engaging in fair use, and that was clearly an issue in 1996. Archive 2009-05-01