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flydrive
"Visual Meteorological Conditions (VMC). Meteorological conditions expressed in terms of visibility, distance from cloud, and ceiling meeting or exceeding the minimums specified for VFR."
Straight out of the Instrument Flying Handbook Glossary. Thanks for playing.
For the purposes of shooting a circling approach those do not apply. Many circling approaches have ceiling minimums that don’t allow you to maintain VFR but you can continue the approach in VMC.