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Meanings of electric circuit in English

Portuguese
circuito
Catalan
circuit
Spanish
circuito

An electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow.

        circuito
        Usage of electric circuit in English
        1
        An electric circuit could not have more speedily roused the town.
        The River of Darkness; Or, Under Africa
        2
        There's a reservoir below into which they drop when the electric circuit is broken.
        The Stark Munro Letters / Being series of twelve letters written...
        3
        The apparatus (see figure) consists of two contacts connected by an electric circuit.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885
        4
        It is this flow of electrons through the electric circuit that creates the electric current.
        BBC
        5
        And that electric circuit in turn creates a secondary magnetic field, and those two propel each other.
        Wired
        6
        Adoption of all precautions calculated to reduce possibility of damage from either the electric circuit or from collisions.
        The New York Subway, Its Construction and Equipment
        7
        When the fish is hooked the line will pull the brass points into contact and close the electric circuit.
        The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
        8
        The two plates and the carbon button form part of an electric circuit containing a battery and a galvanometer.
        Edison: His Life and Inventions
        9
        This latter and the metal plate are connected in an electric circuit which includes a battery and a sensitive galvanometer.
        Edison: His Life and Inventions
        10
        We also made a lot of special parts in the electric circuit as well as the frame and the bodywork.
        Wired
        11
        How any one acquainted with the laws of the electric circuit can make such statements is what I cannot understand.
        Edison: His Life and Inventions
        12
        Waves like that were generated whenever an electric circuit was made or broken besides their occurrence from purely natural causes.
        Operation Terror
        13
        That's your electric circuit.
        Wired
        14
        Yet it is evident that the parts of the magnet from the equator to the pole were out of the electric circuit.
        Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1
        15
        The object of this apparatus is to close an electric circuit when the temperature of a room rises above a certain point.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884.
        16
        He had considerable trouble with the pocket button because his fingers were shaking as though he were plugged into an electric circuit.
        The Young Lions
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        Translations for electric circuit
        Spanish
        circuito
        Electric circuit through the time
        Electric circuit across language varieties
        United Kingdom
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