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Circuit   /sˈərkət/   Listen
Circuit

noun
1.
An electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow.  Synonyms: electric circuit, electrical circuit.
2.
A journey or route all the way around a particular place or area.  Synonym: tour.  "We took a quick circuit of the park" , "A ten-day coach circuit of the island"
3.
An established itinerary of venues or events that a particular group of people travel to.  "On the lecture circuit" , "The judge makes a circuit of the courts in his district" , "The international tennis circuit"
4.
The boundary line encompassing an area or object.  Synonym: circumference.  "A danger to all races over the whole circumference of the globe"
5.
(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.
A racetrack for automobile races.  Synonym: racing circuit.
7.
Movement once around a course.  Synonyms: circle, lap.
verb
1.
Make a circuit.



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"Circuit" Quotes from Famous Books



... channel in the rock to contain the wires, and thereby lessen the risk of the fracture of these wires in the course of the building-up process. Of course, if by any accident this should happen, the circuit would be severed, and no explosion would follow when the electric battery was set ...
— Queen Sheba's Ring • H. Rider Haggard
... little red lamps over each door that led out, being on another circuit, were all burning quietly, but in the first moment of fright no one noticed them, and the house seemed ...
— The Primadonna • F. Marion Crawford
... the field where it can neither be caught before touching the ground, nor thrown to first base before the batter himself can run there; if he can hit it far enough to allow him to reach not only first base, but second or third or even home, so much the better, for when he has made the complete circuit of the bases his side is credited with one run. If he cannot make home on his own hit he may be helped around by the good hits of succeeding batsmen, for each one of the nine takes his regular turn at the bat. This batting and running goes on until three of ...
— Base-Ball - How to Become a Player • John M. Ward
... she would care to talk to a manager about going on an "eleven weeks' circuit," as ...
— The Story Of Julia Page - Works of Kathleen Norris, Volume V. • Kathleen Norris
... and made a half-circuit of the house. On passing to the farther side, he would come within view of those windows which opened so conveniently, as Mrs. Maskell had said—the windows of Redgrave's sitting-room, drawing-room, study, or whatever he called it. ...
— The Whirlpool • George Gissing


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