closed circuit

1. 1.

   a complete electrical circuit around which current flows or a signal circulates

   Synonymsloop

   Antonymsopen circuit

   Broadercircuit

   Narrowerparallel circuit

Questions about closed circuit

What does closed circuit mean?

closed circuit means "a complete electrical circuit around which current flows or a signal circulates".

What is another word for closed circuit?

Close synonyms include loop. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of closed circuit?

The recorded antonyms are open circuit.

Is closed circuit a common word?

closed circuit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.