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Definition: Circuit |
CircuitNoun1. An electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow. 2. A journey or route all the way around a particular place or area; "they took an extended tour of Europe"; "we took a quick circuit of the park"; "a ten-day coach circuit of the island". 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"; "the international tennis circuit". 4. (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. 5. (British) a racetrack for automobile races. 6. Movement once around a course; "he drove an extra lap just for insurance". Verb1. Make a circuit: "They were circuiting about the state". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "circuit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Circuit 1. |
Aerospace | A network providing one or more closed paths. (references) |
Bible | Circuit the apparent diurnal revolution of the sun round the earth (Ps. 19:6), and the changes of the wind (Eccl. 1:6). In Job 22:14, "in the circuit of heaven" (R.V. marg., "on the vault of heaven") means the "arch of heaven," which seems to be bent over our heads. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Electrical Engineering | The assembly of electrical equipment of the installation supplied from the same origin and protected against overcurrents by the same protective device(s). Source: European Union. (references) |
| A group of conductors forming a complete three phase electrical connection. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A region of electrical action where such action takes place essentially along a path and can be uniquely specified in terms of time and a single dimension. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Energy | One complete run of a set of electricconductors from a power source to various electrical devices (appliances, lights, etc.)and back to the same power source. (references) |
| A device, or system of devices, that allows electrical current to flow through it and allows voltage to occur across positive and negative terminals. (references) | |
Literature | Circuit The journey made through the counties of Great Britain by the judges twice a year. There are six circuits in England, two in Wales, and three in Scotland. Those in England are called the Home, Norfolk, Midland, Oxford, Western, and Northern; those of Wales, the North and South circuits; and those of Scotland, the Southern, Western, and Northern. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Math | An acyclic network of inputs, logic gates, and outputs. Contrasted with a Turing machine, it has no memory. (references) |
Mining | Circular galleries made at the different levels in a mine which enable the empty mine cars to be pushed out of the cage on one side and the full ones to be pushed in simulataneously on the other side, thus ensuring a more rapid journey of the cage. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
There are many kinds of circuit
- An electric circuit interconnects electrical elements. Examples in electronics include
- printed circuits
- integrated circuits
- digital circuits
- Series and parallel circuitss
- Telecommunication circuits
- A sport circuit is a closed, often oval or circular, racing track used for motor sports, track cycling, running, skating etc.
- Some political and judicial administrative divisions are known as Circuitss.
- At an airfield, the circuit is an agreed pattern for managing local air traffic.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Circuit."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
At an airfield, the circuit is a conventional standard path for coordinating air traffic that is taking off and landing, as opposed to a practice of so-called "straight in approaches" and "direct climb outs". It is usually employed at small general aviation (GA) airfields, though it is also used at military airfields. Most large airports don't use this system as such, unless they have GA activity as well as commercial flights. However, a circuit of sorts is used at airports in some cases, such as when an aircraft is required to go around.An aircraft taking off will usually be expected to follow the circuit in use, and one arriving at the field to land will be expected to join the circuit in an orderly fashion before landing. This is often accomplished using an overhead join, or by entering on any of the circuit legs, traffic permitting. Aircraft are expected to join and leave the circuit in an orderly and safe manner. Sometimes this will be at the discretion of the pilot, at other times he will be directed by air traffic control. Airfield operators will set up circuits according to the runway in use, the local conventions for noise abatement or other ground features, and the current usage of the airfield. While many operate a completely standard pattern, in many cases it will be modified according to need.
Circuits can be defined as left or right hand, according to which way the turns in the circuit lie. Circuits are typically rectangular in basic shape, and include the runway along one long side of the rectangle. Each leg of the circuit has a particular name:
- The section extending from the runway ahead is called the climb out or upwind leg.
- The first short side is called the crosswind leg
- The long side parallel to the runway but flown in the opposite direction is called the downwind leg
- The short side ahead of the runway is called the base leg
- The section from the end of base leg to the start of the runway is called the final approach or finals.
- The area of the airfield adjacent to the runway but opposite the circuit is known as the dead side.
Military airfields often dispense with the crosswind and base legs, but rather fly these as circular arcs directly joining the upwind and downwind sections.
An airfield will define a circuit height, that is, a nominal altitude above the field (see QFE) that pilots are required to fly at while in the circuit. A typical circuit height would be 1000ft.
The use of a circuit at airfields is for safety - rather than have aircraft flying around the field in a haphazard fashion, by using a circuit pilots will know where to expect other air traffic from, and be able to see it and avoid it. GA pilots flying under VFR conditions will not be separated by air traffic control, and so the circuit is a vital way to keep things orderly.
A pilot undergoing training will often fly many, many circuits one after another. Usually, each landing is followed immediately by a take off and further circuit. This is called a touch and go.
Americans usually refer to the circuit as the traffic pattern or simply pattern. Similarly, circuit height would be referred to as pattern altitude.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Circuit (airfield)."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A circuit is an appealate judicial district among the courts of many nations. The name comes from an era in which justices would ride within a area hearing cases.
Circuit (道 ; Chinese: dào; Japanese: dō) was a Chinese political division, and is a Japanese one. In Korea, the same word 道 (도; Do) is translated as "Province."
China
It originated in China in 627, when Emperor Taizong (唐太宗) subdivided China into ten circuits. Emperor Xuanzong (玄宗) further added 5. It was abolished as the highest administrative divisions when the Qing Empire collapsed in 1911. However, circuits still existed as high-level, though not top-level, divisions of the Republic of China, such as Qionyai Circuit (now Hainan Province). In 1928, all circuits were replaced with committees or just completely abandoned.
Circuits were the highest of the three-tier system (三級制), the next two are prefectures (州) and districts (縣). They are simultaneously inspection areas (監察區 jian1 cha2 qu1).
Japan
The newest and only remaining Japanese circuit is Hokkaido "North Sea Circuit", which has the equivalent status as a prefecture. The seven defunct circuits spread all over the other three islands:
(For the mountain south-north reference with in and yo, see Yin Yang)
- Toukaido (東海道) "East Sea Circuit": 15 provinces (kuni)
- Nankaido (南海道) "South Sea Circuit": 6 provinces
- Saikaido (西海道) "West Sea Circuit": 8 provinces
- Hokurokudo (北陸道) "North Mainland Circuit": 7 provinces
- San'indo (山陰道) "Mountain-north Circuit": 8 provinces
- Sanyodo (山陽道) "Mountain-south Circuit": 8 provinces
- Tousando (東山道) "East Mountain Circuit": 13 provinces
See also Old provinces of Japan
Korea
Since the late 10th century, the Do ("Province") has been the primary administrative division in Korea. See Provinces of Korea for details.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Circuit (political division)."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An electrical network or electrical circuit is an interconnection of analog electrical elements such as resistors, inductors, capacitors, diodes, switches and transistors. It can be as small as an integrated circuit on a silicon chip, or as large as an electricity distribution network.
A circuit is a network that has a closed loop i.e. a return path. A network is a connection of 2 or more simple circuit elements, and may not be a circuit.
The goal when designing electrical networks for signal processing is to apply a predefined operation on potential differences (measured in volts) or currentss (measured in amperes). Typical functions for these electrical networks are amplification, oscillation and analog linear algorithmic operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, differentiation and integration.
In the case of power distribution networks, engineers design the circuit to transport the energy as efficiently as possible while at the same time taking into account economic factors, network safety and redundancy. These networks use components such as power lines, cables, circuit breakers, switches and transformers.
To design any electrical circuits, electrical engineers need to be able to predict the voltages and currents in the circuit. Linear circuits can be analysed to a certain extent by hand because complex number theory gives engineers the ability to treat all linear elements using a single mathematical representation.
A number of electrical laws apply to all electrical networks. These include
Other more complex laws may be needed if the network contains nonlinear or reactive components. Non-linear self-regenerative hetrodyning systems can be approximated. Applying these laws results in a set of simultaneous equations that can be solved either by hand or by a computer.
- Kirchhoff's Current Law: the sum of all currents entering a node is equal to the sum of all currents leaving the node.
- Kirchhoff's Voltage Law: the directed sum of the electrical potential differences around a circuit must be zero.
- Ohm's Law: the voltage across a resistor is the product of its resistance and the current flowing through it.
- Wye-delta transform
- Norton's theorem: any two-terminal collection of voltage sources and resistors is electrically equivalent to an ideal current source in parallel with a single resistor.
- Thevenin's theorem: any two-terminal combination of voltage sources and resistors is electrically equivalent to a single voltage source in series with a single resistor.
Network simulation software
In more complex circuits, engineers need to turn to circuit simulation software. SPICE is the most famous of these.
Linearization around operating point
When faced with a new circuit, the software first tries to find a steady state solution. This is a solution where all nodes conform to Kirchhoff's Current Law and the voltages across and through each element of the circuit conform to the voltage/current equations governing that element.Once the steady state solution is found, the operating points of each element in the circuit are known. For a small signal analysis, every non-linear element can be linearized around its operation point to obtain the small-signal estimate of the voltages and currents. This is an application of Ohm's Law. The resulting linear circuit matrix can be solved with Gauss-Jordan elimination.
Piece-wise linear approximation
This type of simulator uses piece-wise linear approximations of the equations governing the elements of a circuit. This approximation comes down to splitting the circuit into two parts: a completely linear network with a number of terminals that connect to ideal diodes. Every time a diode switches from on to off or vice versa, the linear network is configured differently. Increasing the accuracy of the simulation can be achieved by adding more detail to the approximation of the equations, this will increase the running time of the simulation. This flexibility allows an engineer to make a trade-off between simulation time and the precision of the results, something that is not easily done with the previous simulation technique.
See also
- Impedance, RC Network, RLC series circuit, Closed circuit, Direct current, Alternating current, Digital circuit, Potential divider,Series and parallel circuits, Tesla coil, Load, Schematic, RC, Balancing network, netlist, SPICE
External link
- All About Circuits, Offers a complete guide to electric circuits including experiments
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Electrical network."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| CIAS | English | Circuit inventory and analysis system | Telecom |
| CI | French | Circuit intégré | Computing, Electrical Engineering |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: CircuitSynonyms: circle (n), electric circuit (n), electrical circuit (n), lap (n), racing circuit (n), tour (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Circuit | Verb: perform a circuit; go round about, go out of one's way; make a detour; meander; (deviate). |
Noun: circuit, roundabout way, digression, detour, circumbendibus, ambages, loop; winding; (circuition); zigzag; (deviation). | |
Circuition | Wind, circulate, meander; whisk, twirl; twist; (convolution); make a detour; (circuit). |
Noun: circuition, circulation; turn, curvet; excursion, circumvention, circumnavigation, circumambulation; northwest passage; circuit. | |
Convolution | Winding; Verb: convolution, involution, circumvolution; wave, undulation, tortuosity, anfractuosity; sinuosity, sinuation; meandering, circuit, circumbendibus, twist, twirl, windings and turnings, ambages; torsion; inosculation; reticulation; (crossing); rivulation; roughness. |
Deviation | Fly off at a tangent; glance off; wheel about, face about; turn to the right about, face to the right about; waddle; (oscillate); go out of one's way; (perform a circuit); lose one's way. |
Journey | Journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation; noctambulation, noctambulism; somnambulism; outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt. |
Outline | Noun: outline, circumference; perimeter, periphery, ambit, circuit, lines tournure, contour, profile, silhouette; bounds; coast line. |
Power | Pressure; conductivity; elasticity; gravity, electricity, magnetism, galvanism, voltaic electricity, voltaism, electromagnetism; atomic power, nuclear power, thermonuclear power; fuel cell; hydraulic power, water power, hydroelectric power; solar power, solar energy, solar panels; tidal power; wind power; attraction; vis inertiae, vis mortua, vis viva; potential energy, dynamic energy; dynamic friction, dynamic suction; live circuit, live rail, live wire. |
Region | Noun: region, sphere, ground, soil, area, field, realm, hemisphere, quarter, district, beat, orb, circuit, circle; reservation, pale; (limit); compartment, department; clearing. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Circuit |
| English words defined with "circuit": AND circuit ♦ bridge circuit ♦ circuit board, circuit breaker, circuit card, Circuit court, closed circuit, computer circuit, control circuit ♦ feedback circuit ♦ integrated circuit ♦ Local circuit ♦ negative feedback circuit ♦ Open circuit, OR circuit ♦ parallel circuit, printed circuit, pulse timing circuit ♦ resonant circuit ♦ series circuit, short circuit, shunt circuit, squelch circuit ♦ tank circuit ♦ Voltaic circuit ♦ X-OR circuit. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "circuit": Taotai. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Circuit" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (circuit), French (circuit, loop, system, tour), Latin (border, circulate, encircle, go, measure round, skirt, surround, wander through), Romanian (circuit, circulation, network, round, turnover). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | He's already done the Protestant circuit. Mom must have some compromising photos of the head priest with an altar boy for them to even be considering Igby (Igby Goes Down; writing credit: Burr Steers) I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable - plugged straight into Kurtz (Apocalypse Now; writing credit: John Milius ; Francis Ford Coppola) One of last year's questions was: 'In the following circuit, the potential is blank volts (NewsRadio; writing credit: Scott Bank; Jenny Banks) | |
Clever | You are an engineer if the salespeople at Circuit City can't answer any of your questions. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hot Circuit (1972) Aishu no circuit (1972) The Short Circuit Case (1966) Le Circuit de minuit (1956) The Fable of the Divine Spark That Had a Short Circuit (1915) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Almon Vincent tuning the antenna circuit on sono-radio-buoy RAR work on the GUIDE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Negro student (centre) in the dining hall of the University of Missouri, Columbia, in 1951--He was one of the first ten Negroes admitted to university following a circuit court ruling in their favour. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Aerial view of Glenn Martin Bomber (GMB) circling over Washington, D.C., just before starting on Lieut. Col. R.S. Hartz and Lieut. Ernest E. Harmon's "Round-the-Rim" circuit flight of the United States. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The circuit preacher / drawn by A.R. Waud. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Dominion Alkali & Chemical Co., Ltd., Beaunhois [i.e. Beauharnois], Canada. Circuit breaker. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Circuit breaker in store building. Close-up of circuit breaker I. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Conowingo Hydroelectric Plant. Tops of circuit breakers, connections with line on superstructure. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "Safety first" is the motto of Miss Mary Jayne of Keith's circuit. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | National offshore powerboat 1982 racing circuit. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Circuit board" by Sebastian Mey - KrippsDesign Commentary: "Macro-photo of a vga card." | "Circuit development" by Julia Eisenberg Commentary: "Circuit development (ARCADEmini)." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Unscrupulous as it was, however, it could not bring them nearer than a circuit of several yards |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | When abnormal proteins, such as alpha-synuclein, accumulate on the pre-synaptic side of synapses, the chemical information between cells might not be transmitted properly and the circuit might be interrupted. (references) | |
Business | The Chinese market features both magnetic strip cards and integrated circuit (IC) cards. (references) | |
They prefer high technology equipment such as closed circuit monitoring, infrared motion detection systems, and home insurance. (references) | ||
GPRS involves overlaying a packet based air interface on the existing circuit switched GSM network, which allows information to be transmitted and reassembled as packets. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Russia | In addition the procurator for Moscow's northern administrative circuit has sought actively to ban the Jehovah's Witnesses. (references) |
Economic History | Sri Lanka | It will route local Internet traffic in Sri Lanka thereby saving bandwidth on the international circuit. (references) |
Australia | Patents, trademarks, designs, copyrights and integrated circuit layout rights are protected by Australian law. (references) | |
Human Rights | Sao Tome and Principe | The court system has two levels: Circuit courts and the Supreme Court. (references) |
Panama | The Attorney General appoints the superior and circuit level prosecutors. (references) | |
Ghana | In 2000 the Circuit Court adjourned the case and released the defendants on bail. (references) | |
Political Economy | Liberia | The judicial branch consists of circuit courts in each county, which are courts of record. (references) |
COSTA RICA | Costa Rica enacted new legislation in 2000 providing protection to integrated circuit designs. (references) | |
Liberia | Within each circuit, there are magisterial courts and justice of the peace courts, which are not courts of record. (references) | |
Trade | India | But even if these items are identical models, circuit boards or parts, duty must be paid all over again on the replacements at a specified rate. (references) |
Brazil | With special government permission, computer firms, although required to perform much basic assembly in the zone, may be permitted to import circuit boards which use only surface mounted devices. (references) | |
Women | Ghana | In April the local press reported that the woman took the case to the CHRAJ and filed a suit in circuit court against the tribunal members and the teacher, claiming that the accusation of witchcraft and subsequent tribunal hearing subjected her to slander and public humiliation. (references) |
Worker Rights | China | However, while Tibetans burned incense and celebrated Sagadawa by making the lingkor (a pilgrimage circuit around the religious sites of Lhasa), restrictions and bans on celebrating other important religious holidays continued. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | I shall think it my duty to lay before you the proceedings and the evidence publicly exhibited on the arraignment of the principal offenders before the circuit court of Virginia. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | One-fourth of the States in the Union do not participate in the benefits of a circuit court. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Circuit" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.87% of the time. "Circuit" is used about 2,641 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.87% | 2,611 | 3,493 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.13% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,641 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Singapore | Wong's Circuit (Holdings) Limited | USA | Circuit City Group, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "circuit": absorption circuit ♦ acoustic circuit ♦ adjustable short circuit ♦ aerial circuit ♦ aerodrome circuit ♦ aerodrome taxi circuit ♦ aerodrome traffic circuit ♦ aeronautical fixed circuit ♦ aeronautical fixed telecommunication network circuit ♦ allocated circuit ♦ amplifier equivalent circuit ♦ and circuit ♦ anode circuit ♦ antenna circuit resistance ♦ asymmetric characteristic circuit element ♦ asymmetric circuit element ♦ asymmetric element of a circuit ♦ ats direct speech circuit ♦ auxiliary circuit ♦ bistable circuit ♦ bistable trigger circuit ♦ borsch circuit ♦ bridge circuit ♦ buffer circuit ♦ checking circuit ♦ circle or circuit ♦ circuit board ♦ circuit breaker ♦ circuit CALculus ♦ circuit card ♦ Circuit court ♦ circuit court of appeals ♦ circuit diagram ♦ circuit emulated service ♦ circuit emulation service ♦ circuit group reset acknowledgement message ♦ circuit identification code ♦ circuit judge ♦ Circuit of action ♦ circuit or circle ♦ Circuit or Circuity ♦ circuit race ♦ circuit switched ♦ circuit switching ♦ circuit system ♦ clamping circuit ♦ clipper circuit ♦ clipping circuit ♦ closed circuit ♦ closed circuit TV ♦ CMOS circuit ♦ cocking circuit ♦ combination circuit ♦ combination firing circuit ♦ combinational circuit ♦ combinatorial circuit ♦ combined circuit ♦ computer circuit ♦ conference circuit ♦ control circuit ♦ damping of a circuit ♦ data circuit concentrator ♦ detecting circuit ♦ differentiating circuit ♦ direct service circuit ♦ direct speech circuit ♦ discriminating circuit ♦ disturbing circuit ♦ dual firing circuit ♦ duplex circuit ♦ electric circuit ♦ electrical circuit ♦ engineering service circuit ♦ extension transfer circuit ♦ external circuit ♦ faulted circuit impedance ♦ feedback circuit ♦ firing circuit ♦ fixed circuit ♦ full custom circuit ♦ Galvanic circuit ♦ gate circuit ♦ grid circuit ♦ high Speed Circuit Switched Data ♦ high usage circuit group ♦ hypothetical reference circuit ♦ induction circuit ♦ integrated circuit ♦ integrated circuit card ♦ integrated circuit piezoelectric ♦ integrating circuit ♦ intendant of circuit ♦ intensity mine circuit ♦ interface circuit ♦ interlocking circuit ♦ junctor circuit ♦ landline circuit ♦ leased circuit ♦ light circuit ♦ lighting circuit ♦ limiter circuit. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "circuit": circuit-bashing, circuit-board, circuit-boards, circuit-breaker, circuit-breakers, circuit-building, circuit-closed, circuit-entering, circuit-mode, circuit-parts, circuit-switching, circuit-terminating, circuit-training. | |
Ending with "circuit": open-circuit. | |
Containing "circuit": closed-circuit television, closed-circuit-tv-monitored. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
circuit city | 42,207 | circuit maker | 156 |
wisconsin circuit court | 1,598 | circuit collegiate | 147 |
circuit city.com | 1,473 | power circuit breakers | 146 |
wisconsin circuit court access | 1,466 | circuit board manufacturer | 144 |
electronic circuit | 800 | circuit court wi | 127 |
circuit | 782 | circuit toy | 127 |
circuit breakers | 628 | mini circuit | 125 |
printed circuit board | 520 | circuit boards | 123 |
circuit board | 460 | circuit city coupon | 121 |
integrated circuit | 392 | circuit clerk county macon | 114 |
printed circuit | 389 | electric circuit | 111 |
printed circuit boards | 386 | electrical circuit | 106 |
circuit training | 350 | ninth circuit court of appeal | 104 |
circuit court | 281 | circuit court clerk | 98 |
circuit city com | 269 | short circuit | 95 |
circuit city store | 248 | electrical circuit breakers | 90 |
circuit breaker | 248 | circuit gilles villeneuve | 90 |
pro circuit | 182 | circuit breakers and fuse | 89 |
cook county circuit court | 169 | circuit party | 88 |
hot rod circuit | 160 | closed circuit television | 87 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "circuit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | turn (change, gang, shift), rrjet (chain, network, plexus, ring, system), rreth (around, brim, by, circa, circle, circlet, compass, concerning, coterie, disc, district, gabion, girth, gyre, periphery, range, region, rim, ring, rondure, round, somewhere, union), qark (around, circle, circumference, commune, county, district, parish, region, round), pistë garash automobilistike. (various references) | |
Arabic | جولة (round, tour), فلك (orb, orbit, sphere), حلقة مقلقة, طاف (afloat, buoyant, cruise, floating, promenade, range, roam, roll, rove, scour, swag, tour, travel), طريق غير مباشر, جولة (cruise, patrol, ramble, ride, round, run, swing, tour, trek, turn), أحاط (begird, border on, bound, edge, encircle, frame, girdle, hill, rim, ring, sphere), دورة رياضية, دوران (circumvolution, facing, gyration, revolution, rotation, roundness, turning, turnover, twirl, wheel, whirl), دائرة كهربائية (loop). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съдебен окръг, серия (block, chapter, concatenation, consecution, course, cycle, parcel, range, round, run, sequence, series, set, suite), църковна област, цикъл (circle, cycle, round, run, sequence), въртене (circumgyration, circumvolution, gyration, revolution, rotation, running, spin, swirl, turn, turning, twiddle, wag, wheel, whirl, wiggle, wriggle), верига (chain, network, range, tie), окръжност (circle, circumference, compass, round), обиколка (ambit, girth, leg, round, round trip, roundabout, swing, tour, touring, turn, walk about), обиколен път (byroad, roundabout). (various references) | |
Chinese | 電路 , 線路 (line), 电路 (circuitry), 周 (all, attentive, complete, cycle, encircle, every, lap, thoughtful, week). (various references) | |
Czech | soudní obvod, okruh (circle, round, verge), okružní jízda, obvod (circumference, compass, district, Girt, perimeter, periphery), obìh (circulation, cycle, flow, orbit, revolution, sphere, turn). (various references) | |
Danish | telekredsløb (telecommunication circuit), telekommunikationskredsløb (telecommunication circuit), strømkreds, kredsløb (blood-circulation, circuitry, orbit, telecommunication circuit), kreds, elektrisk kredsløb (electrical circuit). (various references) | |
Dutch | circuit. (various references) | |
Esperanto | cirkvito. (various references) | |
Farsi | مدار (Orbit, Pivot, Theme, Zone), کنفرانس (Colloquium, Conclave, Lecture), گردش (Canter, Gyration, Hike, Jaunt, Meander, Movement, Operation, Period, Progress, Promenade, Race, Rev, Roll, Stroll, Trip, Twirl, Wrest), حوزه (Circle, Compass, District, Extent, Module, Precinct, Zone), جریان (Course, Flow, Fluor, Gush, Income, Inset, Ooze, Outflow, Progress, Rede, Stream, Tide), احاطه کردن (Beset, Box, Circle, Corral, Encircle, Encompass, Envelop, Girdle, Hedge, Hem, Hoop, Impale, Orb, Pale, Ring, Skirt, Sphere), اتحادیه (Confederacy, Guild, League, Union), دوره (Age, Career, Epoch, Era, Periphery, Set, Space, Stadium, Stretch, Term), دورچیزی گشتن (Encircle), دور (Aloof, Around, Away, Distant, Meander, Orbit, Race, Remote, Wheel, Yonder), درمداری سفرکردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | virtapiiri (electrical circuit). (various references) | |
French | circuit (circulation, telecommunication circuit). (various references) | |
German | schaltung (gear change, gearshift, hookup, hook-up, set-up, shift, switching, wiring), kreis (circle, constituency, cycle, district, orbit, round, set, sphere, ward), Stromkreis (electric circuit), kreislauf (circuitry, circulation, cycle). (various references) | |
Greek | κύκλωμα (electrical circuit, telecommunication circuit). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעגל (circle, ring, rolling pin), מחזור (course, cycle, turn), להקיף (embrace, encircle, encompass, engirdle, gird, girdle, pale, ring, round, span, surround, take in), לסובב (revolve, roll, rotate, slue, sprain, twiddle, wind), ככר מעגלי, הקפה (circling, encirclement, round, tick), הקף (circumference, compass, extent, girth, periphery, range, scope, sphere, sweep), גלילה (province, rolling, scroll, scrolling), סבוב (bend, circle, spin, surrounding, tour, turn). (various references) | |
Hungarian | áramkör (current circuit). (various references) | |
Irish | timpeall (around). (various references) | |
Italian | circuito (circulation, course, track). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 回路 , 回線 (line), ゴルフ場 (ace, circle, circlet, circlip, circuit breaker, circuit training, circular fluorescent lamp, circular skirt, circulation, circulator, circumscribe, circumscription, circus, club, Gauloise, golf course, golf links, gondola, gong, goods or services without charge, grounder, saber, sabre, sabre-toothed tiger, sardine, sardonyx, search, searcher, searchlight, serge, sergeant, servant, serve, serve point, server, service, service area, service car, service girl, service room, service station, service yard, snap ring, sports club, support system, surcharge, surf cast, surf casting, surf rider, surf roller, surf ski, surf trolling, surfboard, surfer, surfing, surge, surveillance, survey, Surveyor, third, thirty), 周 (Chou, circumference, lap, surroundings, vicinity). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゅう (Chou, circumference, collection, dried meat, dry up, great number, lap, masses, province, sect, state, the people, vicinity, week), かいせん (battle, cargo vessel, convolution, engagement, game, itch, lighter, line, mange, match, naval battle, outbreak of war, re-election, revolution, rotation, scabies, starting a war), かいろ (pocket heater, sea route), サーキット . (various references) | |
Korean | 회로 (circuitry). (various references) | |
Manx | coorse (career, course, curriculum, racetrack, reef, route, routine, row, travel, way), chymshal (cycle). (various references) | |
Norwegian | omkrets. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ircuitcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | circuito (circle, cycle, period, police station, precinct, station-house, sweep, tour, walk). (various references) | |
Romanian | circuit (circulation, network, round, turnover), cãlãtorie în circuit (circular tour), mişcare circularã (circulation, wheel), jurisdicţie (jurisdiction), district judecãtoresc. (various references) | |
Russian | цепь;оборот, цепь (catena, chain, range, train), циркуляция (circulation, gyration), круговое обращение, круговая поездка, контур (contour, cutout, keyline, outline, path, sidebar), округ (bailiwick, county, district, hundred, parish, presidency, region, sheading), окружность (circumference, compass, periphery), объезд (detour, go-round, slip road), линия связи (communications links, facility, flowline, link). (various references) | |
Scottish | cuairt (eddy, tour, trip, whirl). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | strujno kolo, kružni put. (various references) | |
Spanish | circuito (lap, loop, system). (various references) | |
Swedish | krets (circle, district, division, orbit, ring, round, set, sphere), ledning (cable, captaincy, captainship, conduct, conduction, direction, directorship, duct, governance, guidance, guide, head, hegemony, lead, leadership, line, management, pipe, wire). (various references) | |
Thai | พื้นที่ที่จำกัดเขตไว้, การโคจรรอบ, ขอบเขต (border, boundary, end, extent, limit, orbit, reach, scope, sweep, tether). (various references) | |
Turkish | dolaşmak (air oneself, bat around, be afloat, become tangled, browse around, circulate, float, flow, go about, go around, go for a jaunt, go for a stroll, go for a walk, go on a jaunt, hike, itinerate, jaunt, jauntiness, kink, knot, look round, mat, mosey, perambulate, range, roam, rove, stray, stroll, take a stroll, take a walk, travel, walk, walk about, walk around, wander), çevrim, bir yönetim altındaki işletme sayısı, daire çevresi (circumference, girth), devre (bout, chukker, cycle, half, period, session, term), devretmek (alienate, assign, cede, circulate, convey, deliver, devolve, dispose of, hand down, hand on, hand over, pass, pass on, revolve, slew, slue, transfer, turn over), çember (bail, basket, circle, circumference, girth, hoop, ring, round), dolaşma (going around, implication, kink, perambulation, ride, roam, Sally, walkabout, winding), turneye çıkmak (go on tour, play, tour), dolambaçlı yol (ambages, detour, indirect means, meander, meandering, roundabout, roundabout way), etrafında dönmek (revolve, round), gezici dava vekili, gezici hakim, lig (conference, league), tur (lap, round, rounder, tour, touring), dolaşıp aynı noktaya gelen yol. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | робити коло, район (area, belt, borough, circumference, circumscription, neighborhood, neighbourhood, quarter, radius, rayon, region, zone), турне, кругобіг, коло (anear, anigh, aside, by, circle, circumference, circus, near, on, orb, ring, round, verge, wheel), округа (circumference, neighborhood, neighbourhood, vicinity), окружність (circumference, compass, round), об'їзд (byroad, detour, side road), обхід (by pass, detour, perambulation), обходити кругом, обертатися (circle, encircle, encompass, pivot, revolve, rotate, slew, turn, turn about, turn around, turn round, wheel, whirl), обертання (circumvolution, rotation, turning, whirlabout), поїздка кружним шляхом, дільниця (district), довжина кола. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cuộc tuần du, chu vi (girth), đường vòng quanh sự đi vòng quanh cuộc kinh lý. (various references) | |
Welsh | cylchedd (circle, compass), cylchdaith, amgylch (circumscribed circle, environs, surroundings), amdaith. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
