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circuit

English

Etymology

From Middle English circuit, from Old French circuit, from Latin circuitus (a going round), from circuire (go round), from circum (around) + ire. As a Chinese administrative division, a calque of Chinese ? (dào) or ? ().

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [?s??.k?t]
  • (General American) IPA(key): [?s?.k?t]
  • (Indian English) IPA(key): [?s??.k??], [?s??.k??]
  • Rhymes: -??(r)k?t

Noun

circuit (plural circuits)

  1. The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution
    • 1904, Popular Science Monthly Volume 64 page 33
      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.'
  2. The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area.
  3. That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
  4. The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.
  5. (electricity) Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.
  6. A regular or appointed trip from place to place as part of one's job
    • November 25 2016, Jane Cornwell in The Age, Bill Bailey: bird loving joker at the peak of his career
      Having cut his teeth on London's take-no-prisoners comedy circuit he can handle hecklers too, sometimes with musical accompaniment; recent shows see him armed with a veritable chamber orchestra's worth of instruments, all of which he plays.
  7. (law) The jurisdiction of certain judges within a state or country, whether itinerant or not.
  8. (historical) Various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China, including:
    1. The counties at the fringes of the empire, usually with a non-Chinese population, from the Han to the Western Jin.
    2. The 10 or so major provinces of the empire from the Tang to the early Yuan.
    3. Major provincial divisions from the Yuan to early Republican China.
  9. (law) Abbreviation of circuit court.
  10. (Methodism) The basic grouping of local Methodist churches.
  11. By analogy to the proceeding three, a set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville.
  12. (motor racing) A track on which a race in held; a racetrack
    • November 13 2016, Formula 1
      Interlagos is the 24th track Hamilton has won at in F1, which is more than any other driver in history. The only circuit on the current calendar that Hamilton hasn’t won at is Baku, which only joined the schedule this year.
  13. (obsolete) circumlocution
    • 1572, Richard Huloet, Huloets Dictionarie
      circuite of words.
  14. (Scientology) A thought that unconsciously goes round and round in a person's mind and controls that person.
  15. (graph theory) A closed path, without repeated vertices allowed.
  16. A chain of cinemas/movie theaters.
    • 1990, Arthur A. Thompson, ?Alonzo J. Strickland, Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases (page 341)
      Mike Patrick commented on a theater chain he was considering buying and converting to 99 ¢ theaters with multiplex screens: I'm looking at a circuit of theaters in a major metropolitan area. Now the owner hasn't told me that it is for sale yet.
    • 2002, Allen Eyles, ?Keith Skone, Cinemas of Hertfordshire (page 61)
      It again featured Edgar Simmons (the architect and chairman), John Ray (the builder), L. E. Agar (managing director) and J. G. Wainwright (head of a separate circuit of cinemas).

Synonyms

  • (path or distance around a space): periplus (naval)
  • (Imperial Chinese administrative divisions): dao; lu, route (Later Jin to Song); tao (obsolete)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

circuit (third-person singular simple present circuits, present participle circuiting, simple past and past participle circuited)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To travel around.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin circuitus.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /si??kujt/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /sir?kujt/

Noun

circuit m (plural circuits)

  1. circuit

Further reading

  • “circuit” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “circuit” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
  • “circuit” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “circuit” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French circuit, from Old French circuit, from Latin circuitus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /s?r?k?i/
  • Hyphenation: cir?cuit
  • Rhymes: -i

Noun

circuit n (plural circuits, diminutive circuitje n)

  1. (sports) racetrack
    Synonym: racebaan
  2. (physics) electric circuit
    Synonym: stroomkring
  3. (figuratively) exclusive group of individuals, clique, circle
    Synonyms: kliek, kring

Descendants

  • ? Indonesian: sirkuit

French

Etymology

From Latin circuitus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /si?.k?i/
  • Homophone: circuits

Noun

circuit m (plural circuits)

  1. circuit
  2. tour

Derived terms

  • circuit imprimé
  • coup de circuit

Further reading

  • “circuit” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /?kir.ku.it/, [?k?rku?t?]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?t??ir.ku.it/, [?t??irkuit?]

Verb

circuit

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of circue?

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French circuit and Latin circuitus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t??ir.ku?it/

Noun

circuit n (plural circuite)

  1. circuit

Declension

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sequence

English

Etymology

From Middle English sequence, borrowed from French sequence (a sequence of cards, answering verses), from Late Latin sequentia (a following), from Latin sequens (following), from sequi (to follow); see sequent.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?si?kw?ns/

Noun

sequence (countable and uncountable, plural sequences)

  1. A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series
  2. (uncountable) The state of being sequent or following; order of succession.
    Complete the listed tasks in sequence.
  3. A series of musical phrases where a theme or melody is repeated, with some change each time, such as in pitch or length (example: opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony).
  4. A musical composition used in some Catholic Masses between the readings. The most famous sequence is the Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) formerly used in funeral services.
  5. (mathematics) An ordered list of objects, typically indexed with natural numbers.
  6. (now rare) A subsequent event; a consequence or result.
    • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, pp. 12-13:
      he found no words to convey the impressions he had received; then he gave way to the anger always the sequence of the antagonism of opinion between them.
  7. A series of shots that depict a single action or style in a film, television show etc.
  8. (card games) A meld consisting of three or more cards of successive ranks in the same suit, such as the four, five and six of hearts.

Usage notes

  • (mathematics): Beginning students often confuse sequence with series.

Synonyms

  • (a set of things next to each other in a set order): See Thesaurus:sequence

Hypernyms

  • (mathematics): function

Hyponyms

  • presequence
  • (computing): escape sequence

Meronyms

  • (mathematics): term

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

sequence (third-person singular simple present sequences, present participle sequencing, simple past and past participle sequenced)

  1. (transitive) to arrange in an order
  2. (transitive, biochemistry) to determine the order of things, especially of amino acids in a protein, or of bases in a nucleic acid
  3. (transitive) to produce (music) with a sequencer

Translations

References

Further reading

  • sequence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • sequence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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