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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Circulation \Cir'cu*la"tion\, noun [L. circulatio: cf. F. circulation.]
1. The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
This continual circulation of human things. --Swift.
2. The act of passing from place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission.
The true doctrines of astronomy appear to have had some popular circulation. --Whewell.
3. Currency; circulating coin; notes, bills, etc., current for coin.
4. The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measure of diffusion; as, the circulation of a newspaper.
5. (Physiol.) 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
circulation
noun
1: the dissemination of copies of periodicals (as newspapers or magazines)
2: movement through a circuit; especially the movement of blood through the heart and blood vessels
3: (library science) the count of books that are loaned by a library over a specified period
4: number of copies of a newspaper or magazine that are sold; "by increasing its circulation the newspaper hoped to increase its advertising"
5: free movement or passage through a series of vessels (as of water through pipes or sap through a plant)
6: the spread or transmission of something (as news or money) to a wider group or area
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
158 Moby Thesaurus words for "circulation": Rh factor, Rh-negative, Rh-positive, Rh-type, Rhesus factor, advertisement, airing, angular momentum, angular motion, angular velocity, announcement, antibody, antigen, arterial blood, axial motion, bandying, blood, blood bank, blood cell, blood count, blood donor, blood donor center, blood group, blood grouping, blood picture, blood platelet, blood pressure, blood serum, blood substitute, bloodmobile, bloodstream, book, bowling, broadcast, broadcasting, bruiting, bruiting about, centrifugation, circling, circuit, circuition, circuitousness, circuitry, circularity, circumambience, circumambiency, circumambulation, circumflexion, circumgyration, circumlocution, circummigration, circumnavigation, circumrotation, circumvolution, clinical dextran, course, demonetization, devaluation, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, dextran, diffusion, digression, display, dissemination, distribution, erythrocyte, evulgation, excursion, excursus, flow, flowing, full circle, globulin, gore, grume, gyration, gyre, gyring, hematics, hematologist, hematology, hematoscope, hematoscopy, hemocyte, hemoglobin, hemometer, humor, ichor, indirection, isoantibody, issuance, issue, issuing, leukocyte, lifeblood, meandering, monetization, motion, neutrophil, opsonin, orbit, orbiting, passage, periodical, phagocyte, pivoting, plasma, plasma substitute, printing, proclamation, promulgation, pronouncement, propagation, publication, publishing, red corpuscle, reeling, revaluation, revolution, roll, rolling, rotation, rotational motion, round, roundaboutness, rounding, serum, spin, spinning, spiral, spiraling, spread, spreading, spreading abroad, swinging, swirling, swiveling, telecasting, transmission, trolling, trundling, turbination, turn, turning, type O, venous blood, ventilation, volutation, volution, wheel, wheeling, whir, whirl, whirling, white corpuscle
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