Thesaurus results for CIRCUIT

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noun

Definition of circuit

as in circumference

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as in loop

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as in tour

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as in conference

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circuit

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verb

as in to circle

to travel completely around after circuiting the exterior of the church, the procession headed inside

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Noun

The ruling Friday creates a circuit split, with dueling rulings on the same question, teeing up the issue for potential Supreme Court review. — Marshall Cohen, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026 The circuit split increases the likelihood that the Supreme Court will take up the issue. — Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2026

Verb

Seven Stars circuits the island of Kyushu over four days and three nights, with stops at onsens, shrines, and more cultural sites. — Jd Shadel, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2024 Republicans countered that the bill would short-circuit a deliberative process. — Azi Paybarah, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2022 See All Example Sentences for circuit

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Noun

All but one of the other circumference measurements were between 4 4⁄8 and 5 inches.

— Richard P. Smith, Outdoor Life, 27 Aug. 2026
Should people be measuring their waist circumference in addition to knowing their BMI?

— Faye Chiu, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of circumference

Noun

Long before feedback control, engineers relied on open-loop systems — and still do.

— Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2026
The ride reaches speeds of 72 mph, the fastest coaster in Universal’s global portfolio, while traversing 4,100 feet of track, two towering inverted loops and a pretzel loop.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of loop

Noun

The Grammy winner claims Keren Urinov, who worked on her 2025 tour, demanded a 15-year employment contract.

— Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Sep. 2026
Admission to the garden is free all day, and there will be a number of bilingual English and Spanish events to celebrate Latino Conservation Week, including coffee, games and a tour of the garden’s production nursery.

— Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of tour

Noun

Mamdani opened the news conference by expressing his condolences to the victims and their families and thanking the officers who responded.

— Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026
At the time, the school praised his leadership through UCLA’s conference realignment and his efforts to improve the athletic department’s financial position.

— Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of conference

Verb

Military helicopter circled overhead, searching for survivors, assessing the disaster and mapping out possible rescue and evacuation routes.

— Shristi Kafle, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026
Attendees may make a habit of circling conflicts and calculating whether ten minutes of one set is worth the hike before another begins.

— Svetlana Khachiyan, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of circle

Noun

In the third volume of her Diaspora Quartet, Lee follows the Koh family from Australia to Korea to the United States as their paterfamilias John hews to his strong inner compass.

— Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
The challenge is not usually a lack of capability, but the absence of an integrated compass, alignment and feedback system.

— Kumar Rupesh, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of compass

Noun

At the time, satellites were too large and launching them was too expensive to send an enormous cluster into orbit, as the project proposed.

— Jeffrey Lewis, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2026
The loss of a partner star, could cause a stellar body to be tightly bound to a supermassive black hole, completing an orbit once every few months.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of orbit

Noun

The $4 billion observatory is on a million-mile journey to an orbit beyond the moon.

— Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026
What started as a column for a youth magazine at a club in North London has now been running for over a decade, with several of the other students Dimoldenberg met there going on the journey with her.

— Ellise Shafer, Variety, 31 Aug. 2026

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