circuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜː.kɪt/
ipa: /ˈsɝ.kɪt/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈsɜ(ɾ).kɪʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /sə(ɾ)ˈkjuʈ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kɪt
Forms: form: circuits
Etymology: From Middle English circuit, from Old French circuit, from Latin circuitus (“a going round”), from circuire (“go round”), from circum (“around”) + ire.
Senses: examples: text: After 27 days the moon has made one circuit among the stars, moving from west to east. But in those 27 days the sun has likewise moved eastwardly, about 27 degrees. The moon, then, has to make one circuit and a little more in order to be again in the line joining the earth and sun, in order to be again 'new.'
ref: 1904, Popular Science Monthly Volume 64, page 33:
text: In the future, he says, a focus on the hate circuit may open new avenues for treatment – including new drugs and psychotherapies – that target this and other specific circuits in the brain.
ref: 2011 October 4, Amanda MacMillan, “Depressed brains may hate differently”, in CNN:
glosses: The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution
examples: text: Circuit of the wall from the east to the West
ref: 1598, John Stow, A Survay of London:
glosses: The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area.
examples: text: And this fell tempest shall not cease to rage Until the golden circuit on my head, Like to the glorious sun's transparent beams, Do calm the fury of this mad-bred flaw.
ref: 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II, Act III, Scene I, line 351:
glosses: That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
examples: text: "Fondling," she saith, "since I have hemm'd thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer: Feed where thou wilt, on mountain, or in dale; Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie."
ref: 1592, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, Stanza 39, line 229:
text: A circuit wide enclosed with goodliest trees.
ref: 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
glosses: The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.
examples: text: The parts within these series and parallel sub-circuits may be arranged in different ways without changing what the circuit does. Large circuits are made of combinations of smaller series and parallel circuits.
ref: 2017 October 23, “Snap Circuits Light”, in Snap Circuits, Elenco, page 9:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.
examples: text: Having cut his teeth on London's take-no-prisoners comedy circuit he can handle hecklers too, sometimes with musical accompaniment; recent shows see him armed with a veritable chamber orchestra's worth of instruments, all of which he plays.
ref: 2016 November 25, Jane Cornwell, “Bill Bailey: bird loving joker at the peak of his career”, in The Age:
glosses: A regular or appointed trip from place to place as part of one's job
topics: law
glosses: The jurisdiction of certain judges within a state or country, whether itinerant or not.
topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of circuit court.
qualifier: Methodism
glosses: The basic grouping of local Methodist churches.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville.
examples: text: Interlagos is the 24th track Hamilton has won at in F1, which is more than any other driver in history. The only circuit on the current calendar that Hamilton hasn’t won at is Baku, which only joined the schedule this year.
ref: November 13 2016, Formula 1
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: A track on which a race in held; a racetrack
examples: text: circuite of words.
ref: 1572, Richard Huloet, Huloets Dictionarie:
glosses: circumlocution
topics: Scientology
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A thought that unconsciously goes round and round in a person's mind and controls that person.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A closed trail.
examples: text: Mike Patrick commented on a theater chain he was considering buying and converting to 99 ¢ theaters with multiplex screens: I'm looking at a circuit of theaters in a major metropolitan area. Now the owner hasn't told me that it is for sale yet.
ref: 1990, Arthur A. Thompson, Alonzo J. Strickland, Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases, page 341:
text: It again featured Edgar Simmons (the architect and chairman), John Ray (the builder), L. E. Agar (managing director) and J. G. Wainwright (head of a separate circuit of cinemas).
ref: 2002, Allen Eyles, Keith Skone, Cinemas of Hertfordshire, page 61:
glosses: A chain of cinemas/movie theaters.
glosses: A single completion of all of the exercises in a circuit training regime.
Synonyms: topics: naval
navy
military
war
government
politics
sense: path or distance around a space
word: periplus
Derived terms: arc-fault circuit interrupter
Banana Pancake Circuit
biocircuit
Boolean circuit
chicken-in-a-basket circuit
circuital
circuit bending
circuit board
circuit-breaker
circuit breaker
circuit court
circuit diagram
circuiteer
circuiter
circuit intendant
circuitous
circuit party
circuit queen
circuit race
circuit rank
circuit rider
circuitry
circuit slugger
circuit split
circuit topology
circuit training
circuity
citronella circuit
closed-circuit
closed circuit
closed-circuit television
cocircuit
combinational circuit
Domesday circuit
electrical circuit
electric circuit
electronic circuit
Eulerian circuit
Foxhole Circuit
Galvanic circuit
Home Circuit
in-circuit
integrated circuit
integrated optical circuit
intracircuit
Junior Circuit
Kirchhoff's circuit laws
Kirchoff's circuit laws
local circuit
logic circuit
macrocircuit
magnetic circuit
mesocorticolimbic circuit
microcircuit
multicircuit
nano-circuit
nanocircuit
neurocircuit
noncircuit
open circuit
open circuit voltage
parallel circuit
phantom circuit
polyphase circuit
printed circuit
printed circuit board
radio frequency integrated circuit
recircuit
ride the circuit
sawdust circuit
Senior Circuit
series circuit
short-circuit
short circuit
short-circuit operator
short circuit operator
subcircuit
track circuit
Voltaic circuit