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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

... in one coil when the circuit in a concentric coil is completed or broken. Notices similar effects when a wire bearing a current approaches another wire or recedes from it. Rotates a galvanometer needle by an electric pulse. Induces currents in coils when the magnetism is varied in their iron or steel ...

— Little Masterpieces of Science: - Invention and Discovery • Various

... obtained, except a few mollusca, and still less exact information regarding the customs, religion, or language of its diversified population, steered for Amboyna, which was reached without any accident on the 24th September. The governor, M. Merkus, happened to be on circuit; but his absence was no obstacle to the supply of all the stores needed by the commander. The reception given by the authorities and the society of the place was of a very cordial kind, and everything was done to compensate the French explorers for the hardships ...

— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century • Jules Verne

... as three months' imprisonment—penalties, moreover, which were simultaneously inflicted upon the Jews who, as in the case of Odessa, had resorted to self-defence. When the terrible Kiev pogrom was tried in the local Military Circuit Court, the public prosecutor Strelnikov, a well-known reactionary who subsequently met his fate at the hands of the revolutionaries, delivered himself on May 18 of a speech which was rather an indictment against the Jews than against the rioters. He ...

— History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II • S.M. Dubnow

... confession. Those already in prison made confessions that implicated others, until the busy justices of the peace had shut up sixteen women and four men to be tried at the assizes. Sir Edward Bromley and Sir James Altham, who were then on the northern circuit, reached Lancaster on the sixteenth of August. In the meantime, "Old Demdike," after a confession of most awful crimes, had died in prison. All the others were put on trial. Thomas Potts compiled a very careful abstract ...

— A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 • Wallace Notestein

... he persuaded himself that matters were not as bad as they first appeared. Inasmuch as the fugitives had not returned over their own trail, the Indians, in case they took it in the morning, must make the same circuit, and thus be forced to go just as far as if the flight had been ...

— The Daughter of the Chieftain - The Story of an Indian Girl • Edward S. Ellis

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