CIRCUIT

n. SuBrk'i2t. Gr., irtpioSos. Lat., circuit us (from circuire, to go around). Fr., c. Ger., Kreis, Kreislauf, Umlauf. It., r.ircuito. Sp., circuito. 1. The act of moving around continuously in a more or le circular course; revolution. 2. The course taken in such a motion; of an electrical current, the chain of objects through which it pa es. 3. Of a recurrent disease, the period of its revolution. [A, 318, 325, 385.] [s. 293]