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What does circuit mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution
  2. The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area.
  3. That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
  4. The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.
  5. (electricity) Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.
  6. A regular or appointed trip from place to place as part of one's job
  7. (law) The jurisdiction of certain judges within a state or country, whether itinerant or not.
  8. (historical) Various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China, including:
    1. The counties at the fringes of the empire, usually with a non-Chinese population, from the Han to the Western Jin.
    2. The 10 or so major provinces of the empire from the Tang to the early Yuan.
    3. Major provincial divisions from the Yuan to early Republican China.
  9. (law) Abbreviation of circuit court.
  10. (Methodist Church) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.
  11. By analogy to the proceeding three, a set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville.
  12. (motor racing) A track on which a race in held.
  13. (obsolete) circumlocution
  14. (Scientology) A thought that unconsciously goes round and round in a person's mind and controls that person.
Verb
  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
  2. (obsolete) To travel around.
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