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      circuit
      noun
      (electricity) Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.
      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.
      A regular or appointed trip from place to place as part of one's job
      (motor racing) A track on which a race in held; a racetrack
      A chain of cinemas/movie theaters.
      The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.
      That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
      (law) The jurisdiction of certain judges within a state or country, whether itinerant or not.
      (Methodism) The basic grouping of local Methodist churches.
      (theater) A set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville.
      (Scientology) A thought that unconsciously goes round and round in a person's mind and controls that person.
      (graph theory) A closed trail.
      A single completion of all of the exercises in a circuit training regime.
      The counties at the fringes of the empire, usually with a non-Chinese population, from the Han to the Western Jin.
      The 10 or so major provinces of the empire from the Tang to the early Yuan.
      Major provincial divisions from the Yuan to early Republican China.
      (law) Abbreviation of circuit court. [(law) A court that sits at more than one location in the district that it serves.]
      (obsolete) circumlocution
      (historical) Various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China, including:
      verb
      (intransitive, obsolete) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
      (transitive, obsolete) To travel around.
      Roots
      kirkoscirc- · Greek · ring, circleeo-it · Latin · go
      Synonyms for circuit
      circuitrynmicrocircuitnlapntourncirclenloopn
      Words related to circuit
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      Where does circuit come from?

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