Meaning of "circuit" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CIRCUIT

From Latin circuitus a going around, from circumīre, from circum around + īre to go.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF CIRCUIT

circuit  [ˈsɜːkɪt]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CIRCUIT

Circuit is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb circuit in English.

WHAT DOES CIRCUIT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Circuit

Circuit may mean: ▪ Circuit theory, the theory of accomplishing work by routing electrons, gas, fluids, or other matter through loops Further information: Hydraulic analogy and Fluidics In electrical engineering ▪ Electrical circuit, an electrical network that has a closed loop giving a return path for the current ▪ Circuit analysis, the process of finding the voltages across, and the currents through, every component in an electrical circuit ▪ Electronic circuit, active electronic components connected in a circuit ▪ Analog circuit or Digital circuit ▪ Integrated circuit ▪ Mixed-signal integrated circuit ▪ Asynchronous circuit or Synchronous circuit ▪ Printed circuit board ▪ Series and parallel circuits ▪ Telecommunication circuit ▪ Circuit diagram ▪ Balanced circuit ▪ LC circuit In fluid power and fluid mechanics ▪ Hydraulic circuit ▪ Pneumatic circuit In physics ▪ Magnetic circuit, one or more...

Definition of circuit in the English dictionary

The first definition of circuit in the dictionary is a complete route or course, esp one that is curved or circular or that lies around an object. Other definition of circuit is the area enclosed within such a route. Circuit is also the act of following such a route.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO CIRCUIT

PRESENT

Present

I circuit

you circuit

he/she/it circuits

we circuit

you circuit

they circuit

Present continuous

I am circuiting

you are circuiting

he/she/it is circuiting

we are circuiting

you are circuiting

they are circuiting

Present perfect

I have circuited

you have circuited

he/she/it has circuited

we have circuited

you have circuited

they have circuited

Present perfect continuous

I have been circuiting

you have been circuiting

he/she/it has been circuiting

we have been circuiting

you have been circuiting

they have been circuiting

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I circuited

you circuited

he/she/it circuited

we circuited

you circuited

they circuited

Past continuous

I was circuiting

you were circuiting

he/she/it was circuiting

we were circuiting

you were circuiting

they were circuiting

Past perfect

I had circuited

you had circuited

he/she/it had circuited

we had circuited

you had circuited

they had circuited

Past perfect continuous

I had been circuiting

you had been circuiting

he/she/it had been circuiting

we had been circuiting

you had been circuiting

they had been circuiting

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will circuit

you will circuit

he/she/it will circuit

we will circuit

you will circuit

they will circuit

Future continuous

I will be circuiting

you will be circuiting

he/she/it will be circuiting

we will be circuiting

you will be circuiting

they will be circuiting

Future perfect

I will have circuited

you will have circuited

he/she/it will have circuited

we will have circuited

you will have circuited

they will have circuited

Future perfect continuous

I will have been circuiting

you will have been circuiting

he/she/it will have been circuiting

we will have been circuiting

you will have been circuiting

they will have been circuiting

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would circuit

you would circuit

he/she/it would circuit

we would circuit

you would circuit

they would circuit

Conditional continuous

I would be circuiting

you would be circuiting

he/she/it would be circuiting

we would be circuiting

you would be circuiting

they would be circuiting

Conditional perfect

I would have circuit

you would have circuit

he/she/it would have circuit

we would have circuit

you would have circuit

they would have circuit

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been circuiting

you would have been circuiting

he/she/it would have been circuiting

we would have been circuiting

you would have been circuiting

they would have been circuiting

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you circuit
we let´s circuit
you circuit

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to circuit

Past participle

circuited

Present Participle

circuiting

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «CIRCUIT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «circuit» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of circuit

course · journey · lap · orbit · perambulation · racecourse · racetrack · revolution · round · route · tour · track

TRANSLATION OF CIRCUIT

Find out the translation of circuit to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of circuit from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «circuit» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 电路
• Translator English - Spanish: circuito
• English: circuit
• Translator English - Hindi: सर्किट
• Translator English - Arabic: دَائِرَة كَهْرَبائِيَّة
• Translator English - Russian: электрическая цепь
• Translator English - Portuguese: circuito
• Translator English - Bengali: বর্তনী
• Translator English - French: circuit
• Translator English - Malay: Litar
• Translator English - German: Umkreis
• Translator English - Japanese: 一周
• Translator English - Korean: 회로
• Translator English - Javanese: sirkuit
• Translator English - Vietnamese: mạch
• Translator English - Tamil: சுற்று
• Translator English - Marathi: सर्किट
• Translator English - Turkish: devre
• Translator English - Italian: circuito
• Translator English - Polish: obwód
• Translator English - Ukrainian: електричне коло
• Translator English - Romanian: circuit
• Translator English - Greek: κύκλωμα
• Translator English - Afrikaans: kring
• Translator English - Swedish: bana
• Translator English - Norwegian: krets

10 QUOTES WITH «CIRCUIT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word circuit.

1

Jean Alesi

I am a professional. At the circuit I am calm. At home I am very different.

2

Criss Angel

I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people.

3

Richard Attenborough

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

4

Tracy Austin

Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women's circuit for nine years and came home to tell me stories of France, Japan.

5

Marion Bartoli

Anna Kournikova will always be better paid than Lindsay Davenport. The first left the circuit without having won a single title while the second was world number one.

6

Brian Baumgartner

I moved to Los Angeles, and 'The Office' became successful, and the charity/cocktail party circuit is really not my scene. But I played golf, and I started getting invited to charity golf events, and I just fell in love with the game ten-fold, and at a lot of these events, there were athletes.

7

Edward Boyden

I was interested in big unknowns, and the brain is one of the biggest, so building tools that allow us to regard the brain as a big electrical circuit appealed to me.

8

Robert Byrne

Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses.

9

Jasper Carrott

I've played with some very famous bandits in my time on the celebrity golf circuit.

10

Billy Connolly

I loathe hecklers. I haven't got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone. There's an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it's a different venue.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CIRCUIT»

Discover the use of circuit in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to circuit and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

RF Circuit Design

This book has been updated to include today's integrated circuit (IC) and system-level design issues as well as keeping its classic "wire lead" material.

Christopher Bowick, 2011

The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child

Offers a look at a migrant family, detailing their daily life and the struggles they endured to build an existence on the small opportunities they were given

Francisco Jiménez, 1997

Electrical Circuit Theory and Technology

This book is ideal for students studying engineering for the first time as part of BTEC National and other pre-degree vocational courses (especially where progression to higher levels of study is likely), as well as Higher Nationals, ...

John Bird, 2010

Basic Circuit Analysis for Electrical Engineering

This volume offers basic circuit analysis for electrical engineering. It covers basic concepts and useful mathematical concepts, and includes self-evaluation exercises.

Dana Constantinovici, Matthew Govindsamy, 2000

Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar

From the electronics workshop of Steve Ciarcia comes another group of build-it-yourself electronics projects.

Steve Ciarcia, 1990

Power Circuit Breaker Theory and Design

The book has 13 chapters and the following topics are dealt with: development of circuit breakers; physics of circuit breaker arcs; network switching conditions; oil circuit breakers; air break circuit breakers; air blast circuit breakers; ...

Charles H. Flurscheim, 1982

Radio Frequency Circuit Design

This book focuses on components such as filters, transformers, amplifiers, mixers, and oscillators.

W. Alan Davis, 2011

Fundamentals of Computer-Aided Circuit Simulation

From little more than a circuit-theoretical concept in 1965, computer-aided circuit simulation developed into an essential and routinely used design tool in less than ten years.

William J. McCalla, 1987

Basic Electric Circuit Theory: A One-semester Text

This is a unique book in that it was written as a one-semester text on basic electric circuit theory.

I. D. Mayergoyz, Wes Lawson, 1997

Microwave Circuit Design Using Linear and Nonlinear Techniques

Thoroughly updated with the latest computer-aided methods Microwave Circuit Design Using Linear and Nonlinear Techniques, Second Edition offers a thorough revision of this successful book on microwave circuit design.

George D. Vendelin, Anthony M. Pavio, Ulrich L. Rohde, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CIRCUIT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term circuit is used in the context of the following news items.

Why The Second Circuit Made A Flawed Decision In Upholding …

Then Fox appealed to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which is one step down from the U.S. Supreme Court. The appellate court also took ... «Forbes, Jul 15»

Senate clears first circuit judge nominee of 2015

Senators voted 95-0 on Kara Stoll's nomination to be a U.S. circuit court judge for the federal circuit, making her the first Latina to be approved ... «The Hill, Jul 15»

Fifth Circuit to weigh hold on Obama's immigration orders

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will hear arguments in a case Friday that could lift the injunction that has put President Obama's ... «The Hill, Jul 15»

James Cowlin promoted to McHenry County circuit judge, bench …

With Cowlin's appointment, there will be two vacancies for associate judgeships in McHenry County's 22nd Judicial Circuit. The state Supreme ... «Northwest Herald, Jul 15»

Judicial circuit for Sangamon County applies for cameras

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ A judicial circuit that includes Sangamon County has applied to take part in the Illinois Supreme Court's pilot program ... «fox2now.com, Jul 15»

Everything Voice Selects Unify Circuit to Deliver Dynamic …

Circuit is enabling Everything Voice to provide its employees with seamless voice and video calling, presence and instant messaging, and a ... «PR Newswire, Jul 15»

McHenry County Circuit Clerk Katherine Keefe announces re …

Keefe, a Republican from Woodstock, and precinct committeewoman in Dorr Township, has worked in the Circuit Clerk's Office for 28 years, the ... «Northwest Herald, Jul 15»

Chief justice Mohit Shah positive about circuit bench, needs more …

He also stated that a delegation from the Bombay High court will visit Kolhapur in August first week regarding the circuit bench. The last ... «Times of India, Jul 15»

9th Circuit Upholds Most of Anti Mexican-American Studies Law But …

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has upheld most of the Arizona law that ended up banning the Mexican-American studies ... «Tucson Weekly, Jul 15»

Guide: British Cycling Elite Circuit Series – Stockton Town Centre …

ONE Pro Cycling's Jon Mould leads the 2015 British Cycling Elite Circuit Series overall standings ahead of round three, the Stockton Town ... «British Cycling, Jul 15»