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Circuit

The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun.

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Broader term 15

Border 76% connected

The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.

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Delimitation 76% connected

The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation.

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Group 76% connected

A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of…

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Grouping 76% connected

of Group

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Itinerary 76% connected

Itinerant; traveling; passing from place to place; done on a journey.

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Journey 76% connected

The travel or work of a day.

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Journeying 76% connected

of Journey

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Locomotion 76% connected

The act of moving from place to place.

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Mete 76% connected

Meat.

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Path 76% connected

A trodden way; a footway.

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Route 76% connected

The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march.

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Track 76% connected

A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.

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Travel 76% connected

To labor; to travail.

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Bridge 76% connected

A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passagewa…

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Clipper 76% connected

One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coin.

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feedback loop 76% connected

A cycle where results are used to adjust what happens next.

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Limiter 76% connected

One who, or that which, limits.

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Link 76% connected

A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.

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Loop 76% connected

A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls.

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Resonator 76% connected

Anything which resounds; specifically, a vessel in the form of a cylinder open at one end, or a hollow ball of brass with two apertures, so contrived…

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Squelch 76% connected

To quell; to crush; to silence or put down.

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Wiring 76% connected

of Wire

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Circumferential 74% connected

Pertaining to the circumference; encompassing; encircling; circuitous.

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Circumferential 74% connected

Pertaining to the circumference; encompassing; encircling; circuitous.

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Tour 74% connected

A tower.

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Tour 74% connected

A tower.

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Component part 9

Bypass 70% connected

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Choke 70% connected

To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

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Condenser 70% connected

One who, or that which, condenses.

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Relay 70% connected

To lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement.

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Resistance 70% connected

The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.

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Short 70% connected

Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.

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Short circuit 70% connected

A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.

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Shunt 70% connected

To shun; to move from.

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Tube 70% connected

A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.

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Synonym 4

Circle 92% connected

A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the ce…

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Circumference 92% connected

The line that goes round or encompasses a circular figure; a periphery.

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Lap 92% connected

The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.

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Tour 92% connected

A tower.

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