Circuit Meaning
/ˈsɜː.kɪt/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution
nounThe circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area.
Sentence Examples
You must switch off the power before checking the circuit.
The protection circuit is built into the system.
The race ended with eight laps of a city centre circuit.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
An electrical ____ must have a closed loop to power the light.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The electrical ____ was broken, causing all the lights to go out city.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English circuit, from Old French circuit, from Latin circuitus (“a going round”), from circuire (“go round”), from circum (“around”) + ire.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"After 27 days the moon has made one circuit among the stars, moving from west to east. But in those 27 days the sun has likewise moved eastwardly, about 27 degrees. The moon, then, has to make one circuit and a little more in order to be again in the line joining the earth and sun, in order to be again 'new.'"
— 1904, Popular Science Monthly Volume 64, page 33:
"In the future, he says, a focus on the hate circuit may open new avenues for treatment – including new drugs and psychotherapies – that target this and other specific circuits in the brain."
— 2011 October 4, Amanda MacMillan, “Depressed brains may hate differently”, in CNN:
"Circuit of the wall from the east to the West"
— 1598, John Stow, A Survay of London:
"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."
— 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II, Act III, Scene I, line 351:
""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.""
— 1592, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, Stanza 39, line 229:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
An electrical ____ must have a closed loop to power the light.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The electrical ____ was broken, causing all the lights to go out city.