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circuit
  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.
  15. Synonyms:
  16. Examples:
    1. “Each time, he became slower at swimming the circuit around the raft and on the seaward side.”
      “Bardon flew around the circuit in an impressive time of 29.84.”
      “It was the kind of decision that the liberal judges on the circuit normally ask the court to rehear.”
circuity
  1. (countable) A circuitous plan; a roundabout way of doing something.
  2. (uncountable) The state or quality of being circuitous.
  3. (transport, countable) A measure of the ratio of road miles to air miles between two locations.
  4. Examples:
    1. “This paper finds that circuity can help to explain mode choices of commuters.”
      “The results from these areas show that transit circuity exponentially declines as travel time increases.”
      “The ValeMate 8000 features micro-processor circuity for extremely precise control of deposit size.”
circuitry
  1. electrical circuits considered as a group
  2. a specific system of such circuits in a particular device; the design of such a system
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The circuitry in this computer is responsible for transmitting electrical signals and enabling its functionality.”
      “The engineer meticulously inspected the circuitry of the motherboard to identify any potential flaws.”
      “Each of the associated heater resistors has associated active circuitry on the chip.”
circuition
circuiter
  1. One who travels a circuit, such as a circuit judge.
circuiting
circuitousness
  1. The state of being circuitous.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I was always amazed by the length and circuitousness of the corridors in the building.”
      “However, the circuitousness of the walk did afford us a view of the old lock system.”
      “One day I brought up my discomfort with the restrictions and circuitousness of Japanese language.”
circuiteer
  1. A circuiter.
  2. Examples:
    1. “To describe Dodd as a journeyman circuiteer would not be too unkind.”
circuiteers
  1. plural of circuiteer
circuitings
  1. plural of circuiting
circuitions
circuiters
  1. plural of circuiter
circuitries
circuities
  1. plural of circuity
circuits
  1. plural of circuit
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “But that doesn't mean you can't find affordable ways to get into race marketing at local tracks or through smaller circuits.”
      “The very small particles stream through wires and circuits creating currents of electricity.”
      “The speed of silicon-based processors is limited by the rate at which electrons move round circuits.”
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