Definition of circuit

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Circuit (n.) That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown..

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Circuiter :: Circuiter (n.) One who travels a circuit, as a circuit judge..
Direct :: Direct (a.) Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means..
Ambages :: Ambages (n. pl.) A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech.
Circuit :: Circuit (n.) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.
Itinerant :: Itinerant (a.) Passing or traveling about a country; going or preaching on a circuit; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher; an itinerant peddler..
Cut-out :: Cut-out (n.) A device for breaking or separating a portion of circuit.
Roundabout :: Roundabout (a.) Circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech..
Round :: Round (n.) A course ending where it began; a circuit; a beat; especially, one freguently or regulary traversed; also, the act of traversing a circuit; as, a watchman's round; the rounds of the postman..
Wheel :: Wheel (v. i.) To go round in a circuit; to fetch a compass.
Electro-motion :: Electro-motion (n.) The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.
Parish :: Parish (n.) That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein..
Break :: Break (v. t.) An opening or displacement in the circuit, interrupting the electrical current..
Ambit :: Ambit (n.) Circuit or compass.
Relay :: Relay (n.) In various forms of telegraphic apparatus, a magnet which receives the circuit current, and is caused by it to bring into into action the power of a local battery for performing the work of making the record; also, a similar device by which the current in one circuit is made to open or close another circuit in which a current is passing..
Double :: Double (n.) A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues; hence, a trick; a shift; an artifice..
Short-circuit :: Short-circuit (v. t.) To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance..
Circuitous :: Circuitous (a.) Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accomplishing an end..
Circumferential :: Circumferential (a.) Pertaining to the circumference; encompassing; encircling; circuitous.
Eyre :: Eyre (n.) A journey in circuit of certain judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere).
Electrotonic :: Electrotonic (a.) Of or pertaining to electrical tension; -- said of a supposed peculiar condition of a conducting circuit during its exposure to the action of another conducting circuit traversed by a uniform electric current when both circuits remain stationary.
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