Definizione monolingua

circuit

circuit (third-person singular simple present circuits, present participle circuiting, simple past and past participle circuited)

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

   Having circuited the air.

circuit (plural circuits)

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 area.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Stow,:

     So the circuit or compass of Ireland is 1,800 miles, which is 200 less than Caesar doth reckon or account.

3. That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
   • 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II, Act III, Scene I, line 351:

     And this fell tempest shall not cease to rage Until the golden circuit on my head, Like to the glorious suns transparent beams, Do calm the fury of this mad-bred flaw.

4. The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.
   • 1592, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, Stanza 39, line 229:

     ""Fondling,"" she saith, ""since I have hemmd thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, Ill be a park, and thou shalt be my deer: Feed where thou wilt, on mountain, or in dale; Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:

     A circuit wide enclosed with goodliest trees.

5. (electricity) 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 ones calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.
7. (law) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice.
8. (Methodist Church) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.
9. By analogy to the proceeding three, a set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville.
10. (obsolete) circumlocution

Definizione dizionario circuit

circuito

ambito

circolazione

circoscrizione

circùito

giro

rigiro

tratto

Altri significati:

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.

By analogy to the proceeding three, a set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville.

That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.

A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.

The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.

(electricity) Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.

circuit (electric)

The complete path of an electric current including usually the source of electric energy.

(obsolete) circumlocution

The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area.

(law) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice.

(Methodist Church) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.

electric current path

(obsolete) To travel around.

(intransitive, obsolete) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.