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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

... is mounted on a heavy base, with a key-board containing 20 numbered plugs. If one of the plugs is inserted in a hole in the plate it makes contact with the rod, and when the hour hand of the clock touches the other end the circuit is completed and the bell starts ringing. The period of this friction contact is approximately 20 seconds. The clock can therefore be used for electrically noting the periods of time from one minute by multiples of one minute up ...

— The Elements of Bacteriological Technique • John William Henry Eyre

... made the circuit of the archipelago once, calling at the post office on reaching it, but finding no orders, we had proceeded so far on our cruise as to have arrived off the Square Handkerchief Shoal on our second round, and were about to bear up through the Silver Kay Passage, when, toward the end of ...

— Under the Meteor Flag - Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War • Harry Collingwood

... the hill Amara (cf. l. 41, where Coleridge's "Mount Abora" seems to stand for Purchas's Amara). Amara in Purchas's account is a hill in a great plain in Ethiopia, used as a prison for the sons of Abyssinian kings. Its level top, twenty leagues in circuit and surrounded by a high wall, is a garden of delight. "Heauen and Earth, Nature and Industrie, have all been corriuals to it, all presenting their best presents, to make it of this so louely presence, some taking this for the place of our Forefathers Paradise." ...

— Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... is impossible to make a complete circuit of the church, it is as well to begin at the north transept. Here a wall will be found projecting from the north-east corner, of which the western face is in a very dilapidated condition. This wall contains a good Early English pointed arch, which ...

— Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury - with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire • H. J. L. J. Masse

... made by the mob on Big Blue and, the Mormons resisting, the first "battle" of this campaign took place. A sick woman received a pistolshot wound in the head, and one of the Mormons a wound in the thigh. Parley P. Pratt and others were then sent to Lexington to procure a warrant from Circuit Judge Ryland, but, according to Pratt, he refused to grant one, and "advised us to fight and kill the outlaws whenever ...

— The Story of the Mormons: • William Alexander Linn

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