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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
circuit
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
analogue computer/circuit/technology
circuit board
circuit breaker
circuit court
circuit training
closed circuit television
integrated circuit
printed circuit
rubber chicken circuit
▪ She is in demand on the rubber chicken circuit.
short circuit
the comedy circuit/scene (=all the people, places etc involved in providing comedy)
▪ She became a major star on the international comedy circuit.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
closed
▪ Estimates have now been obtained to install a closed circuit television system in both the Myles Meehan and the Long Gallery.
▪ Not in person, but via a closed circuit television screen that fills an entire wall.
▪ Obtaining the necessary, sometimes expensive, special equipment such as closed circuit television takes time and persistence.
▪ The trial made legal history when child witnesses gave evidence using closed circuit television cameras.
▪ It is a simple closed circuit television system, a video camera photographing a speech being rolled beneath it.
▪ I turned our closed circuit cameras on to the flag-wavers and they appeared on the huge screens above the stage.
complete
▪ Integrated circuits are so-called because they are manufactured as complete circuits.
▪ Fig 4. Complete circuit diagram for the Tie Pulser.
▪ We ran around a complete circuit before the first barrier came upon us.
▪ The complete circuit of the capacitance range extender is shown in Fig. 1.
▪ You do a complete circuit, left or right depending on wind, and then you can go where you want.
▪ Fig. 14: complete circuit diagram in three parts.
▪ Fig. 2. Complete circuit diagram for the Vehicle Watchdog.
electrical
▪ The system we consider is the electrical circuit shown in Fig. 24.5.
▪ This is a truth dependent on the situation as it was - there was no adhoc electrical circuit and so on.
▪ An electrical short circuit started the fire, they think.
▪ All the electrical circuits and computer systems are thoroughly checked, along with the guidance systems and the life-support components.
▪ A report is awaited on the entire electrical circuit and plans to improve sound amplification are in hand.
▪ Unfortunately, the candle had untoward consequences: it ignited the plastic and started a small fire in the electrical circuits.
▪ Essential electrical circuits have no back-up.
▪ Torture King places a circular fluorescent light bulb on his head and touches an open electrical circuit.
electronic
▪ I/C Integrated Circuit An electronic circuit on a single chip.
▪ Within a year or two of Obernetics's publication, electronic control circuits revolutionized industry.
▪ Is to be distinguished from the implementation, in which electronic circuits are designed to realize an architecture.
▪ This, in fact, is what engineers do when they devise electronic control circuits to guide spaceships or steer robot arms.
▪ Information is held temporarily in electronic circuits and is lost whenever the computer is turned off.
▪ Any movement detected by the sensor is signalled to the electronic switching circuit which automatically turns on the lights.
▪ Brains are not designed like electronic circuits, with easily identified separate components that can be taken out independently.
▪ Its biggest uses are in industrial cleaning for degreasing engineering parts and electronic circuit boards.
integrated
▪ For example, the degree in Microelectronics requires emphasis on integrated circuit design, integrated circuit fabrication and systems applications.
▪ During the 1950S the United States established a lead in transistors and then in early integrated circuits.
▪ This firm has been designing precision assembly robots to make integrated circuits for the past decade.
▪ The silicon microchip and integrated circuit followed similar if shorter processes from invention to commercial realization.
▪ The simplest integrated circuit consists of three layers, one of which is made of semiconductor material.
▪ The final stage of circuit board construction is to insert the integrated circuit IC1 with the identification notch next to the mercury switch.
▪ The patterns formed by the processes of etching and/or evaporation of the conductor make the electrical circuitry of the integrated circuit.
international
▪ It was still perfectly possible to remain on the international cocktail circuit.
printed
▪ Complete circuit diagram for the Quick Prom interface Fig. 4. printed circuit board component layout and full size copper foil master pattern.
▪ Generally, however, printed circuit boards will be protected, through their preparatory drawings, by copyright.
▪ Mrs Pearce is a manager in an electronics business, making printed circuits.
▪ Users also seem to play an important role in silicon based semi-conductors and electronic sub-assemblies on printed circuits.
▪ The effluent includes acids, alkalis and industrial solvents, many of them byproducts of making printed circuit boards.
▪ Take off the cover and a single skilfully laid out, screened ground plane, printed circuit board is revealed.
▪ Fig 5. Printed circuit board component layout and full size copper foil master pattern for the Tie Pulser.
▪ Sensitive Approach Fortunately it is possible to produce printed circuit boards using a readily available light-sensitive process.
professional
▪ Almost instinctively, people worried that so outstanding a year might tempt Helen to switch at once to the professional circuit.
▪ But her early surge soon gave way to predictable ring-rust after five years off the professional circuit.
▪ The very pinnacle of the sport is the Olympic Games and the world professional circuit.
▪ The Bodicote based player becomes one of only seven women to join the professional circuit.
racing
▪ Read in studio Hard-hit farmers have discovered a new way to make money ... by turning their fields into racing circuits.
▪ Competitors had to drive around the country's top racing circuits within the five-day time period.
▪ He recruits young drivers from their results on the karting and lower formula racing circuit.
▪ Sainz produced a typically uncompromising display in his Toyota Celica around the stately homes and racing circuits of the north Midlands.
▪ Brands Hatch, the famous racing circuit, is a fifteen-minute drive away.
short
▪ And that's despite the fact they have attracted the best short circuit entry of the year.
▪ There was a short circuit Wednesday night on the side of the Cal State Northridge gym where the scoreboard is controlled.
▪ The fire was reported to have been caused by a wiring short circuit.
▪ There is no shortcut to human fulfillment for men-just the short circuit of impotence.
▪ An electrical short circuit started the fire, they think.
▪ Pedantry and intellectual theorising were not Basil's stock-in-trade; all such, he seemed to short circuit.
▪ Farmer's commitment to a mainland racing programme will restrict his racing at home to short circuits, when time will permit.
▪ Capacitor C2 is included to reduce the gain at d.c. to unity whilst appearing as a short circuit to a.c. signals.
simple
▪ This is achieved by the use of a simple 555 timer circuit.
▪ A simple diode clamping circuit provided the activation function, limiting the voltage to /-Vclamp.
▪ Such simple circuits control many types of missile - radar seekers and heat seekers, for example.
▪ A schematic version of this relatively simple circuit is shown in Figure 9.2.
▪ The simplest integrated circuit consists of three layers, one of which is made of semiconductor material.
▪ It is a simple closed circuit television system, a video camera photographing a speech being rolled beneath it.
■ NOUN
board
▪ Printed circuit boards can now be completed in a single pass with assembly involving only two board components.
▪ The brain is not a printed circuit board.
▪ Their many satisfied customers include gas and electricity companies, motor manufacturers, circuit board makers and steam railway maintenance organisations.
▪ Morrison said Apple had recently discovered flawed chips on the computers' main circuit boards could make them freeze up.
▪ The keypads, he says, often break because fatigue fractures appear in the circuit boards of phones.
▪ They regarded its motherboard, the main circuit board, as a beautiful work of art.
▪ Place the circuit board and batteries inside the case and clip the l.e.d. into its holder.
▪ The effluent includes acids, alkalis and industrial solvents, many of them byproducts of making printed circuit boards.
breaker
▪ Always use a circuit breaker for added safety.
▪ Investigators found faulty wiring leading to the pool and no updated circuit breakers that might have saved her life.
▪ You can, as a matter of course, help to protect yourself from electric shocks by using a circuit breaker.
▪ Zahner attributed that, in part, to the circuit breaker system installed to prevent a repeat of the crash of 1987.
▪ The circuit breakers kicked in at 11: 35 a. m. Monday, closing the markets for 30 minutes.
▪ One hour later, the circuit breakers shut down the markets for the rest of the day.
▪ Even when the installation has been undertaken by an expert, the inclusion of a circuit breaker is a wise precaution.
▪ For added safety, we will fit miniature circuit breakers to provide reliable and easily operated protection when using any electrical equipment.
court
▪ The Act of 1868 does not except from that jurisdiction any cases but appeals from circuit courts under the Act of 1867.
▪ His petition for a writ of habeas corpus was denied by the circuit court.
▪ Why was he not delivered to the circuit court of Indiana to be proceeded against according to law?
▪ And soon after this military tribunal was ended, the circuit court met, peacefully transacted its business, and adjourned.
diagram
▪ Complete circuit diagram for the Tie Pulser.
▪ Complete circuit diagram of the Class-A Headphone Amplifier Fig. 2.
▪ Complete circuit diagram for the Quick Prom interface Fig. 4. printed circuit board component layout and full size copper foil master pattern.
▪ The database contains failure history information and the graphics interface allows circuit diagrams and drawings to be displayed.
▪ Technical sales literature often contains important data such as circuit diagrams and explanations on how improvements have been effected.
▪ Alternative rectifier circuit diagram to suit centre-tapped transformers.
▪ Also labels the components on your drawing as per your circuit diagram and retain for future reference.
▪ The assembly of this, used in conjunction with the circuit diagram, should give no problems.
judge
▪ John Devaux, who became a Recorder and head of chambers in 1989, has been appointed a circuit judge.
▪ The Masai, Tepilit, is standing handcuffed between two policemen in the dock as the circuit judge enters.
▪ When we were called, we went and sat in front of the circuit judge, Shanti sitting on my knee.
▪ I had a circuit judge so everywhere he went I had to follow.
lecture
▪ Both the Harvard and Caltech groups took their maps on the lecture circuit, giving talks at scattered conferences and universities.
television
▪ Estimates have now been obtained to install a closed circuit television system in both the Myles Meehan and the Long Gallery.
▪ Not in person, but via a closed circuit television screen that fills an entire wall.
▪ Obtaining the necessary, sometimes expensive, special equipment such as closed circuit television takes time and persistence.
▪ The trial made legal history when child witnesses gave evidence using closed circuit television cameras.
▪ It is a simple closed circuit television system, a video camera photographing a speech being rolled beneath it.
▪ For example, closed circuit television gives the helmsman a view of the engine compartment and of the aft deck of the boat.
tennis
▪ David Whitehead, director of International 35s, a tennis circuit for ex-Grand Slam and Wimbledon players, organizes tailor-made tournaments.
■ VERB
build
▪ One day, the team hopes, it will be possible to build tiny circuits atom by atom.
▪ For example, an upstream team might be building circuit assemblies that a downstream team installs in a finished subcomponent.
▪ Andrea Doyle, who became the tour's new executive director last August, has worked furiously to build up the circuit.
▪ Have you heard about the two students in California who were building circuit boards in their garage?
▪ After building the circuit, connect the battery.
▪ No additional components are needed to build this circuit.
▪ Think the operation through before actually building the circuit.
close
▪ The pressure to close or rebuild the circuit increased rapidly following complaints from drivers about its safety standards.
▪ Can we expect a major shift to closed circuit?
design
▪ Brains are not designed like electronic circuits, with easily identified separate components that can be taken out independently.
integrate
▪ The sort of integrated circuit being used was a pale shadow of the microprocessors that are manufactured today.
▪ A closed loop is a self-contained unit that has no identifiable beginning or end, like a circle or an integrated circuit.
▪ Many researchers are investigating ways to build neural networks directly in integrated circuits.
print
▪ The brain is not a printed circuit board.
▪ Then I made printed circuits for Gulton Industries.
use
▪ That current can be used by computer circuits without any further treatment.
▪ The machines, using highspeed digital circuits and a punched-card format, were the forerunners of the modern computer.
▪ I could tour it just like a normal album but I could use the art circuit as kind of a base audience.
▪ Invertebrates sometimes use local circuits in the periphery, but many actions demand an integrated response of many parts of the body.
▪ Always use a circuit breaker for added safety.
▪ Operation of the D-type bistable may be illustrated using the circuit shown in Fig. 10.
▪ You can, as a matter of course, help to protect yourself from electric shocks by using a circuit breaker.
▪ Readers require precision timings, perhaps for other purposes, should use an alternative circuit.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Gund did a circuit around the ice rink.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even when the installation has been undertaken by an expert, the inclusion of a circuit breaker is a wise precaution.
▪ He intends to push the record to over 9000 miles by walking another 2000 miles to complete the circuit.
▪ I have done the circuit many times before, but always with sitting in the co-pilots seat.
▪ It searched its memories, and the logic circuits made their decisions, according to the orders given them long ago.
▪ It therefore reproduces the linear small-signal response of any four-terminal network and is appropriately referred to as the Z-parameter equivalent circuit.
▪ The checking procedure is something that can be achieved much more rapidly than finding the Hamiltonian circuit in the first place.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Circuit

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.

    1. (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.

    2. (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 of action 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 circle or Galvanic circle or Voltaic circuit or Galvanic circuit, 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

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

Circuit

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

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
circuit

late 14c., "a going around; a line going around," from Old French circuit (14c.) "a circuit; a journey (around something)," from Latin circuitus "a going around," from stem of circuire, circumire "go around," from circum "round" (see circum-) + ire "to go" (see ion). Electrical sense is from 1746. Of judicial assignments, from 1570s; of venues for itinerant entertainers, from 1834. Circuit breaker is recorded from 1874. Related: Circuital.

circuit

"to go around," early 15c., from circuit (n.). Related: Circuited; circuiting.

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Wiktionary
circuit

n. 1 The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth around the sun. 2 The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an are

  1. 3 That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown. 4 The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits. 5 (context electricity English) Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function. 6 A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher. 7 (context legal English) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice. 8 (context legal English) (abbreviation of circuit court English) 9 (context Methodist Church English) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors. 10 By analogy to the proceeding three, a set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville. 11 (context obsolete English) circumlocution v

  2. 1 (context intransitive obsolete English) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate. 2 (context obsolete English) To travel around.

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WordNet
circuit

v. make a circuit; "They were circuiting about the state"

circuit

  1. n. an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow [syn: 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]

  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. (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

  5. a racetrack for automobile races [syn: racing circuit]

  6. movement once around a course; "he drove an extra lap just for insurance" [syn: lap, circle]

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Wikipedia
Circuit

Circuit may refer to:

Circuit (administrative division)

A circuit (; Japanese: dō) was a historical political division of China, and is a term for an administrative unit still used in Japan. In Korea, the same word (; do) is translated as " province".

Circuit (film)

Circuit is a 2001 gay-themed independent film set in the world of gay circuit parties. Written by Dirk Shafer and Gregory Hinton and directed by Shafer, Circuit follows the lives of several people involved in the circuit party scene. Shot on digital video over a period of six months, Shafer was inspired by circuit party music in crafting the film. Circuit received mixed reviews, with reviewers finding the film too long and the performances of several of the lead actors weak.

Circuit (telecom)
Circuit (software)

Circuit is a team communication and collaboration tool released on 28 October 2014 by Unify GmbH & Co. KG.

Circuit (LCMS)

A circuit, in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS), is a local grouping of congregations within one of the Synod's 35 districts. Circuits typically include 8 to 12 congregations. In order to send a pair of delegates to the triennial Synodical convention, a circuit must have between seven and twenty congregations with a combined total of between 1,500 and 10,000 confirmed members; however, Synod by-laws allow the president of the Synod to make exceptions upon the request of a district's board of directors. In some situations where a circuit includes numerous small congregations spread over a large area, the circuit may be subdivided for visitation purposes but still count as a single circuit for voting purposes.

A circuit visitor is a pastor who helps to oversee the other pastors within a circuit. The position is best understood as a peer advisor, as the LCMS has traditionally been strongly congregational, as opposed to hierarchical, in its extra-congregational structure. Nevertheless, there is a district president over the circuit visitors who is ultimately responsible for the pastors and congregations (generally numbering 100-300) in his district. The visitors were previously called circuit counselors, but the Synod's 2014 convention adopted, and the congregations ratified, an amendment to the Synod Constitution changing their title.

Circuit (computer science)

In theoretical computer science, a circuit is a model of computation in which input values proceed through a sequence of gates, each of which computes a function. Circuits of this kind provide a generalization of Boolean circuits and a mathematical model for digital logic circuits. Circuits are defined by the gates they contain and the values the gates can produce. For example, the values in a Boolean circuit are boolean values, and the circuit includes conjunction, disjunction, and negation gates. The values in an integer circuit are sets of integers and the gates compute set union, set intersection, and set complement, as well as the arithmetic operations addition and multiplication.

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Usage examples of "circuit".

The part of the circuit in front of the right delta, however, cannot be construed as a recurving ridge because of the appendage abutting upon it in the line of flow.

Their skilful guide, changing his plan of operations, then conducted the army by a longer circuit, but through a fertile territory, towards the head of the Euphrates, where the infant river is reduced to a shallow and accessible stream.

And, lest the expense or trouble of a journey to court should discourage suitors, and make them acquiesce in the decision of the inferior judicatures, itinerant judges were afterwards established, who made their circuits throughout the kingdom, and tried all causes that were brought before them.

Each of them flies a number of circuits, varying according to his airmanship, and then I take him with me as No.

This case came to the Supreme Court on appeal from a decree of the circuit court of appeals dissolving an injunction restraining certain registration officials from excluding the appellant from the voting list.

Act embodying this objective was held void by Justice William Johnson, himself a South Carolinian, in a case arising in the Carolina circuit and involving a colored British sailor.

The largest asteroid in this sector had deposits of armalcolite ore they needed to fix the Oltion circuits in the warp processor.

Behind him, Tavis was finishing his circuit with the aspergillum and came to asperse Javan as Queron went on to cense Joram.

Court denied the jurisdiction of a federal circuit court to try defendant for a murder committed in Boston Harbor in the absence of statutory authorization of trials in federal courts for offenses committed within the jurisdiction of a State.

I figured I had about a week and a half left of exchanging leftover baht and rupees before I completely ran out of cash, and the only way to get money from my parents was to return to the never-ending circuit of second opinions.

He was Kaid, he was Basha, he was master of all men within a circuit of thirty miles, but he was afraid of this man whom the people called a prophet.

When the capital of the empire was besieged by the Goths, the circuit of the walls was accurately measured, by Ammonius, the mathematician, who found it equal to twenty-one miles.

Baths of salt and percolating streams of micro-elements, genomic plug-ins, bilayer diffusion circuits and protein gradients, syncretic information systems.

The worm would nest in his biochip along with the proposal and would affect his memory of this meetingeven with the Forget-Me-Notusing the same circuits and glands that the chip used to insert data.

Probably because the Bradens virtually blackballed them from the social circuit.