Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word CIRCUIT

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Definitions of 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. A regular or appointed trip from place to place as part of one's job
6. By analogy to the proceeding three, a set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville.
7. A chain of cinemas/movie theaters.
8. (electricity) Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.
9. (legal) The jurisdiction of certain judges within a state or country, whether itinerant or not.
10. (historical) Various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China, including:
11. (legal) Abbreviation of circuit court.
12. (Methodism) The basic grouping of local Methodist churches.
13. (motor racing) A track on which a race in held; a racetrack
14. (obsolete) circumlocution
15. (Scientology) A thought that unconsciously goes round and round in a person's mind and controls that person.
16. (graph theory) A closed path, without repeated vertices allowed.
17. (intransitive, obsolete) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
18. (transitive, obsolete) To travel around.

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Examples of Using CIRCUIT in a Sentence

• In the realm of electronic technology, ASIC stands for application-specific integrated circuit, an integrated circuit customized for a specific task.
• An automatic number announcement circuit (ANAC) is a component of a central office of a telephone company that provides a service to installation and service technicians to determine the telephone number of a telephone line.
• ATM was developed to meet the needs of the Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network as defined in the late 1980s, ATM provides functionality that uses features of circuit switching and packet switching networks by using asynchronous time-division multiplexing.
• For direct measurement, the ammeter is connected in series with the circuit in which the current is to be measured.
• It is used to connect several printed circuit boards together to make up a complete computer system.
• A charge-coupled device (CCD) is an integrated circuit containing an array of linked, or coupled, capacitors.
• joined the Cup Series circuit in 1999, Earnhardt was generally known by the retronyms Dale Earnhardt Sr.
• DPNSS was developed in the early 1980s by BT, or its forerunner, Post Office Telecommunications in recognition that the emerging Digital Private Circuit Primary Rate product 'Megastream' had to address the market for both data and voice, the latter being significantly greater because of the market for PBXs.
• Dia has a modular design with several shape packages available for different needs: flowchart, network diagrams, circuit diagrams, and more.
• Because Earth takes one year to orbit the Sun, the apparent position of the Sun takes one year to make a complete circuit of the ecliptic.
• An electrical circuit is a network consisting of a closed loop, giving a return path for the current.
• These reactions involve electrons moving via an electronically conducting phase (typically an external electrical circuit, but not necessarily, as in electroless plating) between electrodes separated by an ionically conducting and electronically insulating electrolyte (or ionic species in a solution).
• Eurocard is an IEEE standard format for printed circuit board (PCB) cards that can be plugged together into a standard chassis which, in turn, can be mounted in a 19-inch rack.
• It is a two-port electronic circuit that uses electric power from a power supply to increase the amplitude (magnitude of the voltage or current) of a signal applied to its input terminals, producing a proportionally greater amplitude signal at its output.
• Fuse-Switch-Unit, opposite of SFU, relating to the order an electrical fuse is inserted in a circuit.
• The Albert Park Circuit is a motorsport street circuit around Albert Park Lake in the suburb of Albert Park in Melbourne.
• A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is a type of configurable integrated circuit that can be repeatedly programmed after manufacturing.
• Feedback occurs when outputs of a system are routed back as inputs as part of a chain of cause-and-effect that forms a circuit or loop.
• Several different sets of concepts are named "Kirchhoff's laws" after him, which include Kirchhoff's circuit laws, Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation, and Kirchhoff's law of thermochemistry.
• An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip, computer chip, or simply chip, is a small electronic device made up of multiple interconnected electronic components such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors.

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