circularprocess
nounUK /ˈsɜːkjələ ˈprəʊsɛs/
US /ˈsɜːrkjələr ˈprɑːsɛs/
A circular process is a set of steps that goes around and around and ends up back where it started.
The water cycle is a circular process because water keeps moving from the sky to the ground and back again.
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2. A way of doing something that keeps returning to the same point without a clear end.
Their meetings became a circular process, always discussing the same problem.
3. A manufacturing or business sequence in which materials or steps are reused in a loop.
Recycling is a circular process that turns old paper into new paper.
4. A reasoning pattern that uses a conclusion to support its own premise.
The argument was a circular process, so it did not prove anything.