circuit

Meanings

Plural: circuits

Noun

• an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow
• a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area
  • "we took a quick circuit of the park"
  • "a ten-day coach circuit of the island"
• 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"
• the boundary line encompassing an area or object
• (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
• a racetrack for automobile races
• movement once around a course
• 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.
• Abbreviation of circuit court.
• The basic grouping of local Methodist churches.
• 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 trail.
• A chain of cinemas/movie theaters.
• A single completion of all of the exercises in a circuit training regime.
• Various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China, including:
• The counties at the fringes of the empire, usually with a non-Chinese population, from the Han to the Western Jin.
• Various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China, including:
• The 10 or so major provinces of the empire from the Tang to the early Yuan.
• Various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China, including:
• Major provincial divisions from the Yuan to early Republican China.

Verb

• make a circuit
  • "They were circuiting about the state"
• To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
• To travel around.

Synonyms

circle, circumference, dao, electric circuit, electrical circuit, lap, lu, periplus, racing circuit, route, tao, tour