In the basic description, a "circumbinary planet" is a planet that orbits in a binary star system (which is quite common), but orbits two stars (instead of orbiting one of the individual stars). Because of the close orbits of some stars, the only way for planets to form in the system is to form outside the orbits of the two stars.
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