A Quick and Simple Dictionary

circuit

1. Noun.  The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth around the sun.
2. Noun.  The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area.
3. Noun.  That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
4. Noun.  The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.
5. Noun.  (electricity) Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.
6. Noun.  A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.
7. Noun.  (legal) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice.
8. Noun.  (context, Methodist Church) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.
9. Noun.  By analogy to the proceeding three, a set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville.
10. Noun.  (obsolete) circumlocution.
11. Verb.  (intransitive, obsolete) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
12. Verb.  (obsolete) To travel around.