closed-circuit

1. 1.

   relating to or consisting of a closed circuit

   “closed-circuit television”

Questions about closed-circuit

What does closed-circuit mean?

closed-circuit means "relating to or consisting of a closed circuit".

How many syllables are in closed-circuit?

closed-circuit has 5 syllables and divides as clo-sed--cir-cu-it under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is closed-circuit a common word?

closed-circuit is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.