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.
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
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
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 trueconduction through the wire. For an example of a portion of a circuit spoken of as "a circuit" see Circuit, Astatic.
Definitions of circuit 
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
