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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