noun currency; circulating coin; notes, bills, ·etc., current for coin.
2. circulation ·noun the act of passing from place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission.
3. circulation ·noun the act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
4. circulation ·noun the extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measure of diffusion; as, the circulation of a newspaper.
5. circulation ·noun the movement of the blood in the blood-vascular system, by which it is brought into close relations with almost every living elementary constituent. also, the movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants.