circuit

n. சுற்றுப்பயணம், சுற்றுலா, சுற்றிச் செல்லும் பாதை, சுற்றளவு, சுற்றான பாதை, சுற்றடைப்பு, வேலியிடப்பட்ட நிலப்பகுதி, மின்வலி இயக்கம் செல்லும் நெறி, உலா நடுவர் புடைபெயர்ச்சி, உலாநடுவர் குழு, 'மெதடிஸ்ட்' போதகர்களும் வணிகப் பிரயாணிகளும் சுற்றி வரும் வட்டார எல்லை, வட்டகை, நாடகக் கொட்டகைகள் அல்லது திரைப்படக் கொட்டகைகள் கொண்ட தொகுதி, (வி.) சுற்றிச் செல்.

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Cir"cuit, n. Etym: [F. circuit, fr. L. circuitus, fr. circuire or circumire to go around; circum around + ire to go.] 1. The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun. Watts. 2. The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area. The circuit or compass of Ireland is 1,800 miles. J. Stow. 3. That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown. The golden circuit on my head. Shak. 4. The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits. A circuit wide inclosed with goodliest trees. Milton. 5. A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher. 6. (a) (Law) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice. Bouvier. (b) (Methodist Church) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors. 7. Circumlocution. [Obs.] "Thou hast used no circuit of words." Huloet. Circuit court (Law), a court which sits successively in different places in its circuit (see Circuit, 6). In the United States, the federal circuit courts are commonly presided over by a judge of the supreme court, or a special circuit judge, together with the judge of the district court. They have jurisdiction within statutory limits, both in law and equity, in matters of federal cognizance. Some of the individual States also have circuit courts, which have general statutory jurisdiction of the same class, in matters of State cognizance. -- Circuit or Circuity of action (Law), a longer course of proceedings than is necessary to attain the object in view. -- To make a circuit, to go around; to go a roundabout way. -- Voltaic or Galvanic circuit or circle, a continous electrical communication between the two poles of a battery; an arrangement of voltaic elements or couples with proper conductors, by which a continuous current of electricity is established. Cir"cuit, v. i. Defn: To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate. [Obs.] J. Philips. Cir"cuit, v. t. Defn: To travel around. [Obs.] "Having circuited the air." T. Warton.