circuit

[ sur-kit ]

nounrevolution, track, boundary

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Word Origin & History

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.

Example Sentences forcircuit

This to some extent impairs the conductivity of the circuit.

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.

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

Hale wrote his ‘Contemplations’ while travelling on circuit.

I shall speak again of the former in my return from this circuit.

For that purpose I have here a light spiral which is in circuit with this telephone.

And De Boer had laughed and interposed his voice in our circuit.

The summer's-day circuit of the Seven Hills seems all your own.

It is composed of diamonds; in circuit it is a hundred paces or so.

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