CIRCUIT
\sˈɜːkɪt], \sˈɜːkɪt], \s_ˈɜː_k_ɪ_t]\
Definitions of CIRCUIT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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movement once around a course; "he drove an extra lap just for insurance"
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make a circuit; "They were circuiting about the state"
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(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
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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"
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a racetrack for automobile races
By Princeton University
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movement once around a course; "he drove an extra lap just for insurance"
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make a circuit; "They were circuiting about the state"
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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"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area.
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That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
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A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.
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A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.
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To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
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To travel around.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area.
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That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
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A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.
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A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.
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To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
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To travel around.
By Noah Webster.
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The act of going round anything; the arrangement by which an electrical current is kept up between the two poles of a battery or machine; the path of the electric current; circumference; compass; a route over which one passes regularly at intervals; a district, within certain boundaries, as that assigned to a judge.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Round travelled over; surrounding region.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A passing or traveling round; distance around; district traveled over.
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The entire course of an electric current.
By James Champlin Fernald
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In pathological language, generally means 'period,' course.'
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The act of moving around continuously in a more or less circular course.
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The course taken in such a motion. Of an electrical current, the chain of objects through which it passes. If the course is continuous it is a closed circuit; if incomplete it is an interrupted circuit, open or broken.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Latin] The act of moving or revolving around; —that which incloses or encircles, as a ring, band or crown; —a periodical visitation of certain districts in succession as by judges, &c.; —the district thus visited; —a round about mode of reasoning or speech; --circumlocution.
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