circuit
English
Etymology
From Middle English circuit, from Old French circuit, from Latin circuitus (“a going round”), from circuire (“go round”), from circum (“around”) + ire. As a Chinese administrative division, a calque of Chinese 道 (dào) or 路 (lù).
Pronunciation
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Noun
circuit (plural circuits)
- The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution
- 1904, Popular Science Monthly Volume 64 page 33
- After 27 days the moon has made one circuit among the stars, moving from west to east. But in those 27 days the sun has likewise moved eastwardly, about 27 degrees. The moon, then, has to make one circuit and a little more in order to be again in the line joining the earth and sun, in order to be again 'new.'
- 1904, Popular Science Monthly Volume 64 page 33
- The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area.
- That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
- 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II, Act III, Scene I, line 351:
- And this fell tempest shall not cease to rage Until the golden circuit on my head, Like to the glorious sun's transparent beams, Do calm the fury of this mad-bred flaw.
- The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.
- 1592, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, Stanza 39, line 229:
- "Fondling," she saith, "since I have hemm'd thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer: Feed where thou wilt, on mountain, or in dale; Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie."
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
- A circuit wide enclosed with goodliest trees.
- (electricity) Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.
- A regular or appointed trip from place to place as part of one's job
- November 25 2016, Jane Cornwell in The Age, Bill Bailey: bird loving joker at the peak of his career
- Having cut his teeth on London's take-no-prisoners comedy circuit he can handle hecklers too, sometimes with musical accompaniment; recent shows see him armed with a veritable chamber orchestra's worth of instruments, all of which he plays.
- November 25 2016, Jane Cornwell in The Age, Bill Bailey: bird loving joker at the peak of his career
- (law) The jurisdiction of certain judges within a state or country, whether itinerant or not.
- (historical) Various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China, including:
- (law) (deprecated use of
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- By analogy to the proceeding three, a set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville.
- (motor racing) A track on which a race in held; a racetrack
- November 13 2016, Formula 1
- Interlagos is the 24th track Hamilton has won at in F1, which is more than any other driver in history. The only circuit on the current calendar that Hamilton hasn’t won at is Baku, which only joined the schedule this year.
- November 13 2016, Formula 1
- (obsolete) circumlocution
- Huloet
- Thou hast used no circuit of words.
- Huloet
- (Scientology) A thought that unconsciously goes round and round in a person's mind and controls that person.
- (graph theory) A closed path, without repeated vertices allowed
Synonyms
- (path or distance around a space): periplus (naval)
- (Imperial Chinese administrative divisions): dao; lu, route (Later Jin to Song); tao (obsolete)
Derived terms
Derived terms
Translations
act of moving around
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circumference of any space
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that which encircles
space enclosed within a circle
enclosed path of electric current
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regular or appointed journeying
legal: division of a state or country
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circuit court — see circuit court
Methodist Church: district in which an itinerant preacher labors
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set of theaters
circumlocution — see circumlocution
Verb
circuit (third-person singular simple present circuits, present participle circuiting, simple past and past participle circuited)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
- (transitive, obsolete) To travel around.
- Having circuited the air.
Catalan
Pronunciation
Noun
circuit m (plural circuits)
Dutch
Pronunciation
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Noun
circuit n (plural circuits, diminutive circuitje n)
- (sports) racetrack
- (physics) electric circuit
- (figuratively) exclusive group of individuals, clique, circle
Synonyms
- (race track) racebaan
- (electricity) elektrisch circuit, elektrisch netwerk
- (group of people) kliek, kring
French
Etymology
From Latin
Pronunciation
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Noun
circuit m (plural circuits)
Further reading
- “circuit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkir.ku.it/, [ˈkɪrkuɪt̪]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃir.ku.it/, [ˈt͡ʃirkuit̪]
Verb
(deprecated template usage) circuit
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French circuit and Latin circuitus.
Noun
circuit n (plural circuite)
Declension
Declension of circuit
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) circuit | circuitul | (niște) circuite | circuitele |
genitive/dative | (unui) circuit | circuitului | (unor) circuite | circuitelor |
vocative | circuitule | circuitelor |
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