circuit
IPA: sˈɝkʌt
noun
- The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution
- The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area.
- That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
- The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.
- (electricity) Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.
- A regular or appointed trip from place to place as part of one's job
- (law) The jurisdiction of certain judges within a state or country, whether itinerant or not.
- (historical) Various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China, including:
- The counties at the fringes of the empire, usually with a non-Chinese population, from the Han to the Western Jin.
- The 10 or so major provinces of the empire from the Tang to the early Yuan.
- Major provincial divisions from the Yuan to early Republican China.
- (Methodism) The basic grouping of local Methodist churches.
- By analogy to the proceeding three, a set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville.
- (motor racing) A track on which a race in held; a racetrack
- (obsolete) circumlocution
- (Scientology) A thought that unconsciously goes round and round in a person's mind and controls that person.
- (graph theory) A closed path, without repeated vertices allowed.
- A chain of cinemas/movie theaters.
- (law) Abbreviation of circuit court. [(law) A court that sits at more than one location in the district that it serves.]
verb
- (intransitive, obsolete) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
- (transitive, obsolete) To travel around.
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Examples of "circuit" in Sentences
- It is circuitous in its grammar.
- Current circuit is superconducting.
- Chameleon Circuit and the Birth of Trock.
- The first anticlockwise circuit was in 1913.
- The encrypting circuit encrypts the identifier.
- The circuits are connected to the hydraulic pump.
- Dallas is the birthplace of the integrated circuit.
- The band hit the touring and hardcore festival circuit the following year.
- A detecting circuit detects the level of the output of the driving circuit.
- Animating the Reo circuit is a good way to better understanding its behavior.
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