electric circuit

1. 1.

   an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow

   Synonymscircuitelectrical circuit

   Broaderelectrical device

   Narrowerbridgebridged-Tclosed circuitcomputer circuitdelay linefeedback circuitflip-floplimiterlinkopen circuit

   Part ofelectronic equipment

   Partscapacitorchokerelayresistorshort circuitshunt

Questions about electric circuit

What does electric circuit mean?

electric circuit means "an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow".

What is another word for electric circuit?

Close synonyms include circuit, electrical circuit. 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.

Is electric circuit a common word?

electric 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.