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- pronunciation:
- suhr
kiht
- features:
- Word Explorer, Word Parts
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noun |
| definition 1: |
A circuit is a line or route that goes around an area and makes a kind of circle.
The parade will start here and then travel along this circuit until it gets back here around five o'clock.Some runners were too tired to finish the full circuit around the park.- synonyms:
- limit
- similar words:
- border, boundary, edge, margin, outline, rim
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| definition 2: |
A circuit is an act of moving or revolving around something.
It takes one full year for our earth to make one circuit around the sun.- synonyms:
- revolution
- similar words:
- orbit
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| definition 3: |
A circuit is the path that an electric current takes as it travels out from one point and then circles back again to the starting point.
When you turn on a light switch, electricity is allowed to travel in a circuit from a source of electricity to your light and then back again. When you turn the switch off, it breaks the circuit and the light goes off.- similar words:
- path
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| definition 4: |
A circuit is the area that someone travels around regularly to carry out their work.
Mr. Johnson knows his mail carrier because his neighborhood has been part of the mail carrier's circuit for many years.- synonyms:
- rounds, route
- similar words:
- beat, course, loop, territory
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| related words: |
circle, line, turn |
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| derivation: |
circuital (adj.) |
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