a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area | a flight maneuver; aircraft flies a complete circle in the vertical plane |
movement once around a course | an intrauterine device in the shape of a loop |
an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow | fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines |
a racetrack for automobile races | a complete electrical circuit around which current flows or a signal circulates |
(law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different locations); one of the twelve groups of states in the United States that is covered by a particular circuit court of appeals | the topology of a network whose components are serially connected in such a way that the last component is connected to the first component |
an established itinerary of venues or events that a particular group of people travel to | the basic pattern of the human fingerprint |
the boundary line encompassing an area or object | a computer program that performs a series of instructions repeatedly until some specified condition is satisfied |
| an inner circle of advisors (especially under President Reagan) |
| (computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated |
| anything with a round or oval shape (formed by a curve that is closed and does not intersect itself) |