circuit

Meanings

Noun

• The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution
• 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.
• The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.
• 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
• The jurisdiction of certain judges within a state or country, whether itinerant or not.
• Various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China, including:
• Abbreviation of circuit court
• The basic grouping of local Methodist churches.
• By analogy to the proceeding three, a set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville.
• A track on which a race in held; a racetrack
• circumlocution
• A thought that unconsciously goes round and round in a person's mind and controls that person.
• A closed path, without repeated vertices allowed.
• A chain of cinemas/movie theaters.

Verb

• To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
• To travel around.

Related

Similar words

• periplus
• dao; lu, route ; tao

Origin

• From Middle English circuit, from Old French circuit, from Latin circuitus ("a going round"), from circuire, from circum + ire. As a Chinese administrative division, a or 路.