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What does inscribe mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word inscribe? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To write or cut words onto something, especially a hard surface; to engrave.
  2. (geometry) To draw a circle, sphere, etc. inside a polygon, polyhedron, etc. and tangent to all its sides.
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Mutilation was used throughout medieval and early-modern Europe to inscribe punishment publicly upon the body.
These were one liners written by groups of five poets who would each secretly inscribe a word on a slip of paper.
Mailer, disappointed to find that Buckley had apparently neglected to inscribe the book, promptly flipped through the index to see whether he had been mentioned.
It can be shown by geometry that the radius of a circle will inscribe six equal chords within the circumference of the circle.
A physical principle called the diffraction limit says that light cannot be used to see or inscribe features that are smaller than half its wavelength.
Almost everywhere one can see the names and other writings which the visitors inscribe on the stones and marbles.

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