Definitions for circuit

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circuit cir·cuit

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IPA: /ˈsɜr kɪt/

Circuit is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in circuit (cciirtu).

Definitions for circuit

noun

1. an act or instance of going or moving around.
2. a circular journey or one beginning and ending at the same place; a round.
3. a roundabout journey or course.
4. a periodical journey from place to place, to perform certain duties, as by judges to hold court, ministers to preach, or salespeople covering a route.
5. the persons making such a journey.
6. the route followed, places visited, or district covered by such a journey.
7. the line going around or bounding any area or object; the distance about an area or object.
8. the space within a bounding line; district:
9. Electricity. Also called electric circuit. the complete path of an electric current, including the generating apparatus, intervening resistors, or capacitors. any well-defined segment of a complete circuit.
10. Telecommunications. a means of transmitting communication signals or messages, usually comprising two channels for interactive communication. Compare channel1 (def 12).
11. a number of theaters, nightclubs, etc., controlled by the same owner or manager or visited in turn by the same entertainers or acting companies.
12. a league or association:

Idioms

1. ride circuit, Law. (of a judge) to travel a judicial county or district in order to conduct judicial proceedings.

verb (used with object)

1. to go or move around; make the circuit of.

verb (used without object)

1. to go or move in a circuit.

Origin of circuit

1350-1400; Middle English Latin circuitus, variant of circumitus circular motion, cycle, equivalent to circu(m)i-, variant stem of circu(m)īre to go round, circle (circum- Examples for circuit

And in September 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd circuit ordered the release of a 21-photo subset.

Hale wrote his ‘Contemplations’ while travelling on circuit.

Take the case of Herx v. Diocese of Fort Wayne, an employment discrimination suit in the Seventh circuit.

This to some extent impairs the conductivity of the circuit.

In the meantime, the 11th circuit Court of Appeals is investigating the incident.

He should have kept upon this circuit; he'd have been very useful to me.

To indicate the effect, he included a galvanometer in the circuit of the battery and the button.

It had required Sam's reference to gas and crude oil to close the circuit.

Most of the young trekkers traversing the circuit still find time to check their email and update their Facebook pages.

The Sixth circuit offered not one but eight arguments to allow states to ban gay marriage in its deeply weird ruling.