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Definition of 'CIRCUIT'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) circuit
an act or instance of going or moving around.

2.  circuit
a circular journey; round.

3.  circuit
a roundabout journey or course.

4.  circuit
a periodical journey from place to place, as by judges to hold court, ministers to preach, or salespeople covering a route.

5.  circuit
the persons making such a journey.

6.  circuit
the route followed or district covered.

7.  circuit
the line bounding any area or object; the distance about an area or object.

8.  circuit
the complete path of an electric current, including the generating apparatus, intervening resistors, or capacitors.

9.  circuit
any well-defined segment of a complete circuit.

10.  circuit
a means of transmitting communication signals or messages, usu. comprising two channels for interactive communication.

11.  circuit
a number of theaters, clubs, parks, or the like controlled by one management, devoted to one pursuit, or visited in turn by the same participants.

12.  circuit
a league or association:
a softball circuit.

13. (v.t.) circuit
to go or move around; make the circuit of.

14. (v.i.) circuit
to go or move in a circuit.

Etymology: (1350–1400; ME < L circuitus, var. of circumitus circular motion, cycle <circu(m)i-, var. s. of circu(m)īre to go round, circle (circum-circum - +īre to go); cf. ambit , exit¹)

Definition of 'CIRCUIT'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) circuit, electrical circuit, electric circuit
an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow

2. (noun) tour, circuit
a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area
"they took an extended tour of Europe"; "we took a quick circuit of the park"; "a ten-day coach circuit of the island"

3. (noun) circuit
an established itinerary of venues or events that a particular group of people travel to
"she's a familiar name on the club circuit"; "on the lecture circuit"; "the judge makes a circuit of the courts in his district"; "the international tennis circuit"

4. (noun) circumference, circuit
the boundary line encompassing an area or object
"he had walked the full circumference of his land"; "a danger to all races over the whole circumference of the globe"

5. (noun) circuit
(law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different locations); one of the twelve groups of states in the United States that is covered by a particular circuit court of appeals

6. (noun) racing circuit, circuit
a racetrack for automobile races

7. (verb) lap, circle, circuit
movement once around a course
"he drove an extra lap just for insurance"

8. (verb) circuit
make a circuit
"They were circuiting about the state"

Definition of 'CIRCUIT'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) circuit
a regular set of events or places for people involved in a particular activity
the international tennis circuit

2. circuit
a closed path of electrical current
***an electrical circuit

Definition of 'CIRCUIT'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) CIRCUIT
the act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun

2. (noun) CIRCUIT
the circumference of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area

3. (noun) CIRCUIT
that which encircles anything, as a ring or crown

4. (noun) CIRCUIT
the space inclosed within a circle, or within limits

5. (noun) CIRCUIT
a regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher

6. (noun) CIRCUIT
a certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice

7. (noun) CIRCUIT
a district in which an itinerant preacher labors

8. (noun) CIRCUIT
circumlocution

9. (verb) CIRCUIT
to move in a circle; to go round; to circulate

10. (verb) CIRCUIT
to travel around

Definition of 'CIRCUIT'

The Standard Electrical Dictionary

1. CIRCUIT
A conducting path for electric currents properly forming a complete path with ends joined and including generally a generating device of some kind. Part of the conduction may be true and part electrolytic. (See Electrolytic Conduction.) The term has become extended, so that the term is often applied to any portion of a circuit conveniently considered by itself. The simplest example of a complete circuit would be a circular conductor. If rotated in the earth's field so as to cut its lines of force a current would go through it, and it would be an electric circuit. Another example is a galvanic battery with its ends connected by a wire. Here the battery generates the current which, by electrolytic conduction, goes through the battery and by true conduction through the wire. For an example of a portion of a circuit spoken of as "a circuit" see Circuit, Astatic.

Translation of 'CIRCUIT'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a journey or course round something the earth's circuit round the sun; three circuits of the race-track.
Afrikaans: wentel, kring	Arabic: جَوْلَه، دَوْرَه	Bulgarian: обиколка
Brazilian: circuito	Czech: oběh, okruh	German: die Bahn
Danish: kredsløb; omgang	Greek: κυκλική διαδρομή	Spanish: recorrido
Estonian: ringkäik, ring	Farsi: گردش؛ چرخش	Finnish: rata
French: tour	Hebrew: הַקָפָה, סִבוּב @@@סִיבוּ	Hindi: चक्कर
Croatian: kruženje	Hungarian: körforgás	Indonesian: perjalanan keliling
Icelandic: hringrás	Italian: giro	Japanese: １周
Korean: 궤도	Lithuanian: sukimasis	Latvian: riņķojums; apbrauciens
Malay: mengelilingi	Dutch: omloop	Norwegian: omkrets, kretsløp
Polish: obieg	Persian: گردش؛ چرخش	Pashto: دوره، محيط: شاوخوا، را تا
Portuguese: circuito	Romanian: mişcare (în cerc), circu	Russian: виток
Slovak: obeh; okruh, dráha obehu	Slovenian: obhod; krog	Serbian: kruženje
Swedish: omlopp, varv	Thai: การโคจรรอบ	Turkish: devir
Taiwanese: 環行	Ukrainian: виток	Urdu: کسی چیز کے گرد سفر
Vietnamese: đường vòng quanh	Chinese: 环行
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