Circuit CIRCUIT, n.
1. The act of moving or passing round; as the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun, or of the moon round the earth.
2. The space inclosed in a circle, or within certain limits.
3. Any space or extent measured by traveling round.
4. That which encircles; a ring; a diadem.
5. In England, the journey of judges through several counties or boroughs, for the purpose of holding courts. In the United States, the journey of judges through certain states or counties for the same purpose.
6. The counties or states in which the same judge or judges hold courts and administer justice. It is common to designate a certain number of counties to form a circuit, and to assign one or more judges to each circuit. The courts in the circuits are called circuit courts. In the government of the United States, a certain number of states form a circuit.
7. A long deduction of reason.
8. In law, a longer course of proceedings than is necessary to recover the thing sued for.
Bailey gives this as the definition of circuity.
CIRCUIT, v.i. To move in a circle; to go round.
CIRCUIT, v.t. To move or go round.

circuit n 1: an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow [syn: circuit, electrical circuit, electric circuit] 2: a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area; "they took an extended tour of Europe"; "we took a quick circuit of the park"; "a ten-day coach circuit of the island" [syn: tour, circuit] 3: an established itinerary of venues or events that a particular group of people travel to; "she's a familiar name on the club circuit"; "on the lecture circuit"; "the judge makes a circuit of the courts in his district"; "the international tennis circuit" 4: the boundary line encompassing an area or object; "he had walked the full circumference of his land"; "a danger to all races over the whole circumference of the globe" [syn: circumference, circuit] 5: (law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different locations); one of the twelve groups of states in the United States that is covered by a particular circuit court of appeals 6: a racetrack for automobile races [syn: racing circuit, circuit] 7: movement once around a course; "he drove an extra lap just for insurance" [syn: lap, circle, circuit] v 1: make a circuit; "They were circuiting about the state"

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circuit I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French circuite, from Latin circuitus, from circumire, circuire to go around, from circum- + ire to go — more at issue Date: 14th century 1. a. a usually circular line encompassing an area b. the space enclosed within such a line 2. a. a course around a periphery b. a circuitous or indirect route 3. a. a regular tour (as by a traveling judge or preacher) around an assigned district or territory b. the route traveled c. a group of church congregations ministered to by one pastor 4. a. the complete path of an electric current including usually the source of electric energy b. an assemblage of electronic elements ; hookup c. a two-way communication path between points (as in a computer) d. a neuronal pathway of the brain along which electrical and chemical signals travel 5. a. an association of similar groups ; league b. a number or series of public outlets (as theaters, radio shows, or arenas) offering the same kind of presentation c. a number of similar social gatherings <the cocktail circuit> • circuital adjective II. verb Date: 15th century transitive verb to make a circuit about intransitive verb to make a circuit

circuit
n.
1 a a line or course enclosing an area; the distance round. b the area enclosed.
2 Electr. a the path of a current. b the apparatus through which a current passes.
3 a the journey of a judge in a particular district to hold courts. b this district. c the lawyers following a circuit.
4 a chain of theatres or cinemas etc. under a single management.
5 Brit. a motor-racing track.
6 a a sequence of sporting events (the US tennis circuit). b a sequence of athletic exercises.
7 a roundabout journey.
8 a a group of local Methodist churches forming a minor administrative unit. b the journey of an itinerant minister within this.
Phrases and idioms:
circuit-breaker an automatic device for stopping the flow of current in an electrical circuit.
Etymology: ME f. OF, f. L circuitus f. CIRCUM- + ire it- go

circuit (circuits) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. An electrical circuit is a complete route which an electric current can flow around. Any attempts to cut through the cabling will break the electrical circuit. N-COUNT see also closed-circuit, short-circuit 2. A circuit is a series of places that are visited regularly by a person or group, especially as a part of their job. It's a common problem, the one I'm asked about most when I'm on the lecture circuit. N-COUNT: usu supp N 3. A racing circuit is a track on which cars, motorbikes, or cycles race. (mainly BRIT) N-COUNT 4. A circuit of a place or area is a journey all the way round it. (FORMAL) She made a slow circuit of the room. N-COUNT: usu N of n

circuit ˈsə:kɪt n. 1 a a line or course enclosing an area; the distance round. b the area enclosed. 2 Electr. a the path of a current. b the apparatus through which a current passes. 3 a the journey of a judge in a particular district to hold courts. b this district. c the lawyers following a circuit. 4 a chain of theatres or cinemas etc. under a single management. 5 Brit. a motor-racing track. 6 a a sequence of sporting events (the US tennis circuit). b a sequence of athletic exercises. 7 a roundabout journey. 8 a a group of local Methodist churches forming a minor administrative unit. b the journey of an itinerant minister within this. øcircuit-breaker an automatic device for stopping the flow of current in an electrical circuit. [ME f. OF, f. L circuitus f. CIRCUM- + ire it- go]

Circuit \Cir"cuit\, n. [F. circuit, fr. L. circuitus, fr. circuire or circumire to go around; circum around + ire to go.] 1. The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun. --Watts. 2. The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area. The circuit or compass of Ireland is 1,800 miles. --J. Stow. 3. That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown. The golden circuit on my head. --Shak. 4. The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits. A circuit wide inclosed with goodliest trees. --Milton. 5. A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher. 6. (a) (Law) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice. --Bouvier. (b) (Methodist Church) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors. 7. Circumlocution. [Obs.] ``Thou hast used no circuit of words.'' --Huloet. Circuit court (Law), a court which sits successively in different places in its circuit (see Circuit, 6). In the United States, the federal circuit courts are commonly presided over by a judge of the supreme court, or a special circuit judge, together with the judge of the district court. They have jurisdiction within statutory limits, both in law and equity, in matters of federal cognizance. Some of the individual States also have circuit courts, which have general statutory jurisdiction of the same class, in matters of State cognizance. Circuit or Circuity of action (Law), a longer course of proceedings than is necessary to attain the object in view. To make a circuit, to go around; to go a roundabout way. Voltaic or Galvanic circuit or circle, a continous electrical communication between the two poles of a battery; an arrangement of voltaic elements or couples with proper conductors, by which a continuous current of electricity is established.

Circuit \Cir"cuit\, v. i. To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate. [Obs.] --J. Philips.

Circuit \Cir"cuit\, v. t. To travel around. [Obs.] ``Having circuited the air.'' --T. Warton.

CIRCUIT sur'-kit, "a going around": Used to represent several Hebrew words in several senses, e.g. the sun's orbit (tequphah), Ps 19:6; the vault of the heavens (chugh), Job 22:14 the King James Version; the circuit of the winds (cabhibh), Ec 1:6 (see ASTRONOMY); Samuel's visiting of communities (cabhabh), 1Sa 7:16. In the Revised Version (British and American) the idea of encircling or "fetching a compass" (the King James Version) is expressed by the phrase "to make a circuit" (hacebh), 2Sa 5:23; 2Ki 3:9; and in the Revised Version, margin it indicates a plain (ha-kikkar), Ne 3:22. The Greek perielthontes is translated in the same way (Ac 28:13), but the Revised Version, margin reads "cast loose," following the Westcott and Hort, The New Testament in Greek reading perielontes. Nathan Isaacs

Circuit the apparent diurnal revolution of the sun round the earth (Ps. 19:6), and the changes of the wind (Eccl. 1:6). In Job 22:14, "in the circuit of heaven" (R.V. marg., "on the vault of heaven") means the "arch of heaven," which seems to be bent over our heads.

circuit n. 1. Revolution, circular course. 2. Space, region, tract, district, province, range, sphere, field, compass, bounds. 3. Boundary, compass, boundary line, distance round. 4. Course, tour, round, perambulation, journey.

circuit ˈsə:kɪt n. 1 compass, circumference, perimeter, periphery, girth, border, boundary, edge, limit, ambit, margin, outline, confine(s), bound, pale: The circuit of the area amounts to 72 miles. 2 round, tour, ambit, circle, orbit, course, lap: The rider completed the circuit of the ranch, mending the fence as he went.

238 Moby Thesaurus words for "circuit": O, air lane, alentours, ambages, ambience, ambit, amplifier circuit, annular muscle, annulus, arena, areola, arsis, association, astable circuit, aureole, back-to-back switching circuit, bailiwick, beat, booking, border, borderland, borderlands, borscht circuit, bound, boundary, bout, break, broken circuit, bypass, campaign, chaplet, circle, circuital field, circuiteer, circuitry, circulate, circulation, circumambiencies, circumambulate, circumbendibus, circumference, circumjacencies, circummigrate, circumnavigate, circumstances, circumvent, circumvolution, circus, close the circle, closed circle, closed circuit, coast-to-coast hookup, come full circle, compass, complete circuit, conference, confines, context, corona, coronet, coupling circuit, course, crown, cycle, date, dead circuit, demesne, department, describe a circle, detour, deviation, diadem, diastole, digression, discus, disk, domain, dominion, downbeat, edge, encircle, encompass, engagement, entourage, environing circumstances, environment, environs, equivalent circuit, eternal return, excursion, expedition, fairy ring, field, flank, flight path, flip-flop circuit, full circle, galvanic circuit, garland, gestalt, girdle, girdle the globe, girth, glory, go about, go around, go round, go the round, grand tour, gyration, gyre, habitat, halo, hemisphere, hookup, hot circuit, itinerary, jaunt, journey, judicial circuit, junket, jurisdiction, lap, lasso, lateral circuit, leg, limit, line, live circuit, logical circle, loop, looplet, magic circle, magnetic circuit, make a circuit, march, margin, microcircuit, milieu, monostable circuit, multiple circuit, multiple series, neighborhood, net, network, nonsinusoidal circuit, noose, orb, orbit, outing, outline, outposts, outskirts, package tour, pale, path, peregrination, perimeter, periphery, pilgrimage, playing engagement, pleasure trip, precinct, precincts, primrose path, printed circuit, progress, province, pulse, purlieus, radio links, radius, realm, rectifier circuit, revolution, revolve, ring, road, rondelle, rotation, round, round trip, roundabout, roundabout way, roundel, rounds, route, rubberneck tour, run, safari, sally, saucer, sea lane, semiconductor circuit, series, series multiple, shoot, short, short circuit, shortcut, situation, skirt, spell, sphere, sphincter, spiral, stalk, stand, suburbs, surround, surroundings, systole, thermionic tube circuit, thesis, total environment, tour, track, trade route, traject, trajectory, trajet, transistor circuit, travels, trek, trip, turn, upbeat, vaudeville circuit, vector field, vicinage, vicinity, vicious circle, voyage, walk, way, wheel, whirl, wreath

circuit XScreenSaver(6x) XScreenSaver(6x) NAME circuit - animates a number of 3D electronic components. SYNOPSIS circuit [-display host:display.screen] [-visual visual] [-window] [-root] [-delay number] [-parts number] [-no-spin] [-rotate] [-speed number] [-no-light] [-fps] DESCRIPTION Animates a number of 3D electronic components. OPTIONS -visual visual Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual. -window Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default. -root Draw on the root window. -delay number Per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 20000 (0.02 sec- onds.). -parts number Number of parts. Default: 10. -spin | -no-spin Whether the objects should spin. -rotate | -no-rotate Whether the scene should spin. -speed number Rotation speed, 0 - 100. Default: 1. -light | -no-light Whether to us lighting, or flat coloring. -fps | -no-fps Whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen. ENVIRONMENT DISPLAY to get the default host and display number. XENVIRONMENT to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property. SEE ALSO X(1), xscreensaver(1) COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2002 by Ben Buxton. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any pur- pose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. No repre- sentations are made about the suitability of this software for any pur- pose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. AUTHOR Ben Buxton. X Version 11 4.21 (01-Mar-2005) XScreenSaver(6x)

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