Definition of circuit

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Circuit (n.) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.

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Circus :: Circus (n.) Circuit; space; inclosure.
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..
Circuit :: Circuit (n.) That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown..
Yearly :: Yearly (a.) Accomplished in a year; as, the yearly circuit, or revolution, of the earth..
Ground :: Ground (n.) A conducting connection with the earth, whereby the earth is made part of an electrical circuit..
Bridge :: Bridge (n.) A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit.
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.
Circuiteer :: Circuiteer (n.) A circuiter.
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..
Heterogamy :: Heterogamy (n.) The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy.
Wend :: Wend (n.) A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.
Circulate :: Circulate (v. i.) To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body..
Short-circuiting :: Short-circuiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Short-circui.
Run :: Run (n.) In baseball, a complete circuit of the bases made by a player, which enables him to score one; in cricket, a passing from one wicket to the other, by which one point is scored; as, a player made three runs; the side went out with two hundred runs..
Parish :: Parish (n.) That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein..
Shunt :: Shunt (v. t.) A conducting circuit joining two points in a conductor, or the terminals of a galvanometer or dynamo, so as to form a parallel or derived circuit through which a portion of the current may pass, for the purpose of regulating the amount passing in the main circuit..
Circuit :: Circuit (n.) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice..
Wheel :: Wheel (v. i.) To go round in a circuit; to fetch a compass.
Break-circuit :: Break-circuit (n.) A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit.
Circumflexion :: Circumflexion (n.) A winding about; a turning; a circuity; a fold.
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