Circle vs. Circuit

Difference Between Circle and Circuit

Circlenoun

(geometry) A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from a given point (center).

The set of all points (x, y) such that (x-1)² + y²r² is a circle of radius r around the point (1, 0).

Circuitnoun

The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution

Circlenoun

A two-dimensional geometric figure, a disk, consisting of the set of all those points of a plane at a distance less than or equal to a fixed distance (radius) from a given point.

Circuitnoun

The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area.

Circlenoun

Any thin three-dimensional equivalent of the geometric figures.

Put on your dunce-cap and sit down on that circle.

Circuitnoun

That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.

Circlenoun

A curve that more or less forms part or all of a circle.

move in a circle

Circuitnoun

The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.

Circlenoun

Orbit.

Circuitnoun

(electricity) Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.

Circlenoun

A specific group of persons; especially one who shares a common interest.

inner circle;circle of friends

Circuitnoun

A regular or appointed trip from place to place as part of one's job

Circlenoun

(cricket) A line comprising two semicircles of 30 yards radius centred on the wickets joined by straight lines parallel to the pitch used to enforce field restrictions in a one-day match.

Circuitnoun

(legal) The jurisdiction of certain judges within a state or country, whether itinerant or not.

Circlenoun

(Wicca) A ritual circle that is cast three times deosil and closes three times widdershins either in the air with a wand or literally with stones or other items used for worship.

Circuitnoun

(historical) Various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China, including:

Circlenoun

(South Africa) A traffic circle or roundabout.

Circuitnoun

The counties at the fringes of the empire, usually with a non-Chinese population, from the Han to the Western Jin.

Circlenoun

(obsolete) Compass; circuit; enclosure.

Circuitnoun

The 10 or so major provinces of the empire from the Tang to the early Yuan.

Circlenoun

(astronomy) An instrument of observation, whose graduated limb consists of an entire circle. When fixed to a wall in an observatory, it is called a mural circle; when mounted with a telescope on an axis and in Y's, in the plane of the meridian, a meridian or transit circle; when involving the principle of reflection, like the sextant, a reflecting circle; and when that of repeating an angle several times continuously along the graduated limb, a repeating circle.

Circuitnoun

Major provincial divisions from the Yuan to early Republican China.

Circlenoun

A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.

Circuitnoun

(legal) circuit court

Circlenoun

(logic) A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning.

Circuitnoun

(Methodism) The basic grouping of local Methodist churches.

Circlenoun

Indirect form of words; circumlocution.

Circuitnoun

By analogy to the proceeding three, a set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville.

Circlenoun

A territorial division or district.

The ten Circles of the Holy Roman Empire were those principalities or provinces which had seats in the German Diet.

Circuitnoun

(motor racing) A track on which a race in held; a racetrack

Circlenoun

(in the plural) A bagginess of the skin below the eyes from lack of sleep.

''After working all night, she had circles under her eyes.

Circuitnoun

(obsolete) circumlocution

Circleverb

(transitive) To travel around along a curved path.

Circuitnoun

(Scientology) A thought that unconsciously goes round and round in a person's mind and controls that person.

Circleverb

(transitive) To surround.

Circuitnoun

(graph theory) A closed path, without repeated vertices allowed.

Circleverb

(transitive) To place or mark a circle around.

Circle the jobs that you are interested in applying for.

Circuitnoun

A chain of cinemas/movie theaters.

Circleverb

(intransitive) To travel in circles.

Vultures circled overhead.

Circuitverb

To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.

Circlenoun

ellipse in which the two axes are of equal length; a plane curve generated by one point moving at a constant distance from a fixed point;

he calculated the circumference of the circle

Circuitverb

To travel around.

Having circuited the air.

Circlenoun

an unofficial association of people or groups;

the smart set goes therethey were an angry lot

Circuitnoun

an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow

Circlenoun

something approximating the shape of a circle;

the chairs were arranged in a circle

Circuitnoun

a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area;

they took an extended tour of Europewe took a quick circuit of the parka ten-day coach circuit of the island

Circlenoun

movement once around a course;

he drove an extra lap just for insurance

Circuitnoun

an established itinerary of venues or events that a particular group of people travel to;

she's a familiar name on the club circuiton the lecture circuitthe judge makes a circuit of the courts in his districtthe international tennis circuit

Circlenoun

a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island;

the accident blocked all traffic at the rotary

Circuitnoun

(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