circuit

Noun

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.

   The circuit or compass of Ireland is 1,800 miles. J. Stow.

3. That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.

   Quotations

   • 1590: And this fell tempest shall not cease to rage Until the golden circuit on my head, Like to the glorious sun"s transparent beams, Do calm the fury of this mad-bred flaw. — William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II, Act III, Scene I, line 351.

4. The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.

   Quotations

   • 1592: "Fondling," she saith, "since I have hemm"d thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I"ll 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. — William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, Stanza 39, line 229.
   • A circuit wide inclosed with goodliest trees. Milton.

5. A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one"s calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.
6. (Law) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice.
7. (Methodist Church) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.
8. (Obsolete) Circumlocution.

   Thou hast used no circuit of words. --Huloet.

7 letters in word "circuit": C C I I R T U.

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Words found within circuit:

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