Term: 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
Candidate hypernym: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: opacity: the phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation → 0
Candidate hypernym: hurry: a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry → 0
Candidate hypernym: cut of pork: cut of meat from a hog or pig → 0
Candidate hypernym: salinometer: a hydrometer that determines the concentration of salt solutions by measuring their density → 0
Candidate hypernym: miner: laborer who works in a mine → 0
Candidate hypernym: mpeg: a set of standards adopted by the moving pictures experts group for the compression of digital video and audio data or a file of data compressed according to those standards → 0
Candidate hypernym: jump: descent with a parachute → 0
Candidate hypernym: caladium bicolor: most popular caladium; cultivated in many varieties since the late 19th century → 0
Candidate hypernym: number cruncher: a computer capable of performing a large number of mathematical operations per second → 0
Candidate hypernym: heroic couplet: a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style → 0