Circuit
['sɜːkɪt] or ['sɝkɪt]
Definition
(noun.) an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow.
(noun.) (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.
(noun.) 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'.
(verb.) make a circuit; 'They were circuiting about the state'.
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Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area.
(n.) That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
(n.) The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits.
(n.) A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.
(n.) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice.
(n.) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.
(n.) Circumlocution.
(v. i.) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
(v. t.) To travel around.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Revolution, circular course.[2]. Space, region, tract, district.[3]. Boundary, compass, boundary line, distance round.[4]. Course, tour, round, perambulation, journey.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Tour, circumference
ANT:Line, straightness, directness
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Definition
n. the act of moving round: area extent: a round made in the exercise of a calling esp. the round made by the judges for holding the courts of law: the judges making the round: (Shak.) diadem.—v.t. to go round.—n. Circuiteer′ a judge: one who goes on a circuit.—adj. Circū′itous round about.—adv. Circū′itously.—n. Circū′ity motion in a circle: an indirect course.—Make a circuit to go round.
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Examples
- And there would be no Circuit to go. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Voltmeters (Fig. 236), or instruments for measuring voltage, are like ammeters except that a wire of very high resistance is in circuit with the movable coil. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The slim, bare, copper wire snapped on the least provocation, and the circuit was down for thirty-six days in the first six months. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The latter, in each case, has in its circuit a resistance, R, to compensate for the resistance of the main line, so that there shall be no inequalities in the circuits. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The poles of the electromagnet in the local circuit are hollowed out and filled up with carbon disks or powdered plumbago. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- When current is made, the relay attracts an armature, which thereby closes a circuit in a local battery and thus causes a click of the sounder. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Each acknowledges the perfection of the polarised sex-circuit. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Trolley circuits are usually 500 volts, and will kill an animal, but are not necessarily fatal to man. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The latter, in each case, has in its circuit a resistance, R, to compensate for the resistance of the main line, so that there shall be no inequalities in the circuits. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The result of moisture in the interior of a magnet is to weaken the effectiveness of the installation, leading eventually to short circuits and burn-outs. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The underlying phenomena were similar, the difference consisting largely in the arrangement of the circuits and apparatus. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A maximum reading can then be made by manipulating the flexible connections, and this will show whether the two circuits are in accord. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The accompanying diagram and explanation may serve to remove the difficulty of understanding why the two circuits are maintained quite distinct. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- To-day there are in the United States more than 41,000,000 of these lamps, connected to existing central-station circuits in active operation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And this suggests that the aim of education is to facilitate such short-circuited growth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But the oxide developed the phenomena now familiar to electricians, and the lamp short-circuited itself. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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