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What is a parallel circuit?

What is a parallel circuit? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An electrical circuit that has two or more components that are connected in parallel.
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The voltage, or potential difference, across each branch of a parallel circuit is the same, but the currents may vary.
A toaster, a fan, and three or four lamps may be connected to the same parallel circuit.
It ceased when a repeater-tube went out and a parallel circuit took over.
Customary usage in the literature is to assume that any network that is not a simple series circuit or a simple parallel circuit must be a series-parallel circuit.
As a replacement is airside bus system, provided consisting on airside bus couplers and airside bus actuators for parallel circuit technology.
A parallel circuit comprises branches so that the current divides and only part of it flows through any branch.

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