circuit
noun
1. an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow
Definition categories: man–made
2. a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area
- we took a quick circuit of the park
- a ten-day coach circuit of the island
Similar word(s): tour
Definition categories: act, journey, journeying
3. an established itinerary of venues or events that a particular group of people travel to
- she's a familiar name on the club circuit
- on the lecture circuit
- the judge makes a circuit of the courts in his district
Definition categories: location, itinerary, path, route
4. the boundary line encompassing an area or object
- he had walked the full circumference of his land
- a danger to all races over the whole circumference of the globe
Similar word(s): circumference
Definition categories: location, border, borderline, delimitation, mete
5. (law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different locations); one of the twelve groups of states in the United States that is covered by a particular circuit court of appeals
Definition categories: group, grouping
6. a racetrack for automobile races
Definition categories: man–made, racecourse, racetrack, raceway, track
7. movement once around a course
Definition categories: act, locomotion, travel