parallel circuit

1. 1.

   a closed circuit in which the current divides into two or more paths before recombining to complete the circuit

   Synonymsshunt circuit

   Broaderclosed circuit

Questions about parallel circuit

What does parallel circuit mean?

parallel circuit means "a closed circuit in which the current divides into two or more paths before recombining to complete the circuit".

What is another word for parallel circuit?

Close synonyms include shunt 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 parallel circuit a common word?

parallel 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.