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circuit

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1. circuit - Noun

2. circuit - Verb

Meaning

The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun.

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

The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits.

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

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

A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.

Circumlocution.

To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.

To travel around.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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There are no small accidents on this circuit. Ayrton Senna

I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive, what time, what circuit first, I ask not but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive He guides me and the bird. In his good time. Robert Browning

A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation. Karl Marx

The moon makes her circuit of the heaven in twenty-eight days plus about an hour, and with her return to the sign from which she set forth, completes a lunar month. Vitruvius

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more. Ayrton Senna

Better make a short circuit than to wet your hose. Danish Proverb

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