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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

circulating
     adj 1: moving or flowing in a circuit and returning to the same
            point; "steam circulating through the pipes"; "the
            circulating thyroid hormones"
     2: passing from one to another; "circulating bills and coins"
        [syn: circulating]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Decimal \Dec"i*mal\, n.
   A number expressed in the scale of tens; specifically, and
   almost exclusively, used as synonymous with a decimal
   fraction.

   Circulating, or Circulatory, decimal, a decimal
      fraction in which the same figure, or set of figures, is
      constantly repeated; as, 0.354354354; -- called also
      recurring decimal, repeating decimal, and repetend.
Circulate \Cir"cu*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ciorculated; P.
   pr. & vb. n. Circulating.] [L. circulatus, p. p. of
   circulare, v. t., to surround, make round, circulari, v. i.,
   to gather into a circle. See Circle.]
   1. To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and
      return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the
      body. --Boyle.

   2. To pass from place to place, from person to person, or
      from hand to hand; to be diffused; as, money circulates; a
      story circulates.