noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
analogue computer/circuit/technology
circuit board
circuit breaker
circuit court
circuit training
closed circuit television
integrated circuit
printed circuit
rubber chicken circuit
▪
She is in demand on the rubber chicken circuit.
short circuit
the comedy circuit/scene (= all the people, places etc involved in providing comedy )
▪
She became a major star on the international comedy circuit.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
closed
▪
Estimates have now been obtained to install a closed circuit television system in both the Myles Meehan and the Long Gallery.
▪
Not in person, but via a closed circuit television screen that fills an entire wall.
▪
Obtaining the necessary, sometimes expensive, special equipment such as closed circuit television takes time and persistence.
▪
The trial made legal history when child witnesses gave evidence using closed circuit television cameras.
▪
It is a simple closed circuit television system, a video camera photographing a speech being rolled beneath it.
▪
I turned our closed circuit cameras on to the flag-wavers and they appeared on the huge screens above the stage.
complete
▪
Integrated circuits are so-called because they are manufactured as complete circuits.
▪
Fig 4. Complete circuit diagram for the Tie Pulser.
▪
We ran around a complete circuit before the first barrier came upon us.
▪
The complete circuit of the capacitance range extender is shown in Fig. 1.
▪
You do a complete circuit , left or right depending on wind, and then you can go where you want.
▪
Fig. 14: complete circuit diagram in three parts.
▪
Fig. 2. Complete circuit diagram for the Vehicle Watchdog.
electrical
▪
The system we consider is the electrical circuit shown in Fig. 24.5.
▪
This is a truth dependent on the situation as it was - there was no adhoc electrical circuit and so on.
▪
An electrical short circuit started the fire, they think.
▪
All the electrical circuits and computer systems are thoroughly checked, along with the guidance systems and the life-support components.
▪
A report is awaited on the entire electrical circuit and plans to improve sound amplification are in hand.
▪
Unfortunately, the candle had untoward consequences: it ignited the plastic and started a small fire in the electrical circuits .
▪
Essential electrical circuits have no back-up.
▪
Torture King places a circular fluorescent light bulb on his head and touches an open electrical circuit .
electronic
▪
I/C Integrated Circuit An electronic circuit on a single chip.
▪
Within a year or two of Obernetics's publication, electronic control circuits revolutionized industry.
▪
Is to be distinguished from the implementation, in which electronic circuits are designed to realize an architecture.
▪
This, in fact, is what engineers do when they devise electronic control circuits to guide spaceships or steer robot arms.
▪
Information is held temporarily in electronic circuits and is lost whenever the computer is turned off.
▪
Any movement detected by the sensor is signalled to the electronic switching circuit which automatically turns on the lights.
▪
Brains are not designed like electronic circuits , with easily identified separate components that can be taken out independently.
▪
Its biggest uses are in industrial cleaning for degreasing engineering parts and electronic circuit boards.
integrated
▪
For example, the degree in Microelectronics requires emphasis on integrated circuit design, integrated circuit fabrication and systems applications.
▪
During the 1950S the United States established a lead in transistors and then in early integrated circuits .
▪
This firm has been designing precision assembly robots to make integrated circuits for the past decade.
▪
The silicon microchip and integrated circuit followed similar if shorter processes from invention to commercial realization.
▪
The simplest integrated circuit consists of three layers, one of which is made of semiconductor material.
▪
The final stage of circuit board construction is to insert the integrated circuit IC1 with the identification notch next to the mercury switch.
▪
The patterns formed by the processes of etching and/or evaporation of the conductor make the electrical circuitry of the integrated circuit .
international
▪
It was still perfectly possible to remain on the international cocktail circuit .
printed
▪
Complete circuit diagram for the Quick Prom interface Fig. 4. printed circuit board component layout and full size copper foil master pattern.
▪
Generally, however, printed circuit boards will be protected, through their preparatory drawings, by copyright.
▪
Mrs Pearce is a manager in an electronics business, making printed circuits .
▪
Users also seem to play an important role in silicon based semi-conductors and electronic sub-assemblies on printed circuits .
▪
The effluent includes acids, alkalis and industrial solvents, many of them byproducts of making printed circuit boards.
▪
Take off the cover and a single skilfully laid out, screened ground plane, printed circuit board is revealed.
▪
Fig 5. Printed circuit board component layout and full size copper foil master pattern for the Tie Pulser.
▪
Sensitive Approach Fortunately it is possible to produce printed circuit boards using a readily available light-sensitive process.
professional
▪
Almost instinctively, people worried that so outstanding a year might tempt Helen to switch at once to the professional circuit .
▪
But her early surge soon gave way to predictable ring-rust after five years off the professional circuit .
▪
The very pinnacle of the sport is the Olympic Games and the world professional circuit .
▪
The Bodicote based player becomes one of only seven women to join the professional circuit .
racing
▪
Read in studio Hard-hit farmers have discovered a new way to make money ... by turning their fields into racing circuits .
▪
Competitors had to drive around the country's top racing circuits within the five-day time period.
▪
He recruits young drivers from their results on the karting and lower formula racing circuit .
▪
Sainz produced a typically uncompromising display in his Toyota Celica around the stately homes and racing circuits of the north Midlands.
▪
Brands Hatch, the famous racing circuit , is a fifteen-minute drive away.
short
▪
And that's despite the fact they have attracted the best short circuit entry of the year.
▪
There was a short circuit Wednesday night on the side of the Cal State Northridge gym where the scoreboard is controlled.
▪
The fire was reported to have been caused by a wiring short circuit .
▪
There is no shortcut to human fulfillment for men-just the short circuit of impotence.
▪
An electrical short circuit started the fire, they think.
▪
Pedantry and intellectual theorising were not Basil's stock-in-trade; all such, he seemed to short circuit .
▪
Farmer's commitment to a mainland racing programme will restrict his racing at home to short circuits , when time will permit.
▪
Capacitor C2 is included to reduce the gain at d.c. to unity whilst appearing as a short circuit to a.c. signals.
simple
▪
This is achieved by the use of a simple 555 timer circuit .
▪
A simple diode clamping circuit provided the activation function, limiting the voltage to /-Vclamp.
▪
Such simple circuits control many types of missile - radar seekers and heat seekers, for example.
▪
A schematic version of this relatively simple circuit is shown in Figure 9.2.
▪
The simplest integrated circuit consists of three layers, one of which is made of semiconductor material.
▪
It is a simple closed circuit television system, a video camera photographing a speech being rolled beneath it.
■ NOUN
board
▪
Printed circuit boards can now be completed in a single pass with assembly involving only two board components.
▪
The brain is not a printed circuit board .
▪
Their many satisfied customers include gas and electricity companies, motor manufacturers, circuit board makers and steam railway maintenance organisations.
▪
Morrison said Apple had recently discovered flawed chips on the computers' main circuit boards could make them freeze up.
▪
The keypads, he says, often break because fatigue fractures appear in the circuit boards of phones.
▪
They regarded its motherboard, the main circuit board , as a beautiful work of art.
▪
Place the circuit board and batteries inside the case and clip the l.e.d. into its holder.
▪
The effluent includes acids, alkalis and industrial solvents, many of them byproducts of making printed circuit boards .
breaker
▪
Always use a circuit breaker for added safety.
▪
Investigators found faulty wiring leading to the pool and no updated circuit breakers that might have saved her life.
▪
You can, as a matter of course, help to protect yourself from electric shocks by using a circuit breaker .
▪
Zahner attributed that, in part, to the circuit breaker system installed to prevent a repeat of the crash of 1987.
▪
The circuit breakers kicked in at 11: 35 a. m. Monday, closing the markets for 30 minutes.
▪
One hour later, the circuit breakers shut down the markets for the rest of the day.
▪
Even when the installation has been undertaken by an expert, the inclusion of a circuit breaker is a wise precaution.
▪
For added safety, we will fit miniature circuit breakers to provide reliable and easily operated protection when using any electrical equipment.
court
▪
The Act of 1868 does not except from that jurisdiction any cases but appeals from circuit courts under the Act of 1867.
▪
His petition for a writ of habeas corpus was denied by the circuit court .
▪
Why was he not delivered to the circuit court of Indiana to be proceeded against according to law?
▪
And soon after this military tribunal was ended, the circuit court met, peacefully transacted its business, and adjourned.
diagram
▪
Complete circuit diagram for the Tie Pulser.
▪
Complete circuit diagram of the Class-A Headphone Amplifier Fig. 2.
▪
Complete circuit diagram for the Quick Prom interface Fig. 4. printed circuit board component layout and full size copper foil master pattern.
▪
The database contains failure history information and the graphics interface allows circuit diagrams and drawings to be displayed.
▪
Technical sales literature often contains important data such as circuit diagrams and explanations on how improvements have been effected.
▪
Alternative rectifier circuit diagram to suit centre-tapped transformers.
▪
Also labels the components on your drawing as per your circuit diagram and retain for future reference.
▪
The assembly of this, used in conjunction with the circuit diagram , should give no problems.
judge
▪
John Devaux, who became a Recorder and head of chambers in 1989, has been appointed a circuit judge .
▪
The Masai, Tepilit, is standing handcuffed between two policemen in the dock as the circuit judge enters.
▪
When we were called, we went and sat in front of the circuit judge , Shanti sitting on my knee.
▪
I had a circuit judge so everywhere he went I had to follow.
lecture
▪
Both the Harvard and Caltech groups took their maps on the lecture circuit , giving talks at scattered conferences and universities.
television
▪
Estimates have now been obtained to install a closed circuit television system in both the Myles Meehan and the Long Gallery.
▪
Not in person, but via a closed circuit television screen that fills an entire wall.
▪
Obtaining the necessary, sometimes expensive, special equipment such as closed circuit television takes time and persistence.
▪
The trial made legal history when child witnesses gave evidence using closed circuit television cameras.
▪
It is a simple closed circuit television system, a video camera photographing a speech being rolled beneath it.
▪
For example, closed circuit television gives the helmsman a view of the engine compartment and of the aft deck of the boat.
tennis
▪
David Whitehead, director of International 35s, a tennis circuit for ex-Grand Slam and Wimbledon players, organizes tailor-made tournaments.
■ VERB
build
▪
One day, the team hopes, it will be possible to build tiny circuits atom by atom.
▪
For example, an upstream team might be building circuit assemblies that a downstream team installs in a finished subcomponent.
▪
Andrea Doyle, who became the tour's new executive director last August, has worked furiously to build up the circuit .
▪
Have you heard about the two students in California who were building circuit boards in their garage?
▪
After building the circuit , connect the battery.
▪
No additional components are needed to build this circuit .
▪
Think the operation through before actually building the circuit .
close
▪
The pressure to close or rebuild the circuit increased rapidly following complaints from drivers about its safety standards.
▪
Can we expect a major shift to closed circuit ?
design
▪
Brains are not designed like electronic circuits , with easily identified separate components that can be taken out independently.
integrate
▪
The sort of integrated circuit being used was a pale shadow of the microprocessors that are manufactured today.
▪
A closed loop is a self-contained unit that has no identifiable beginning or end, like a circle or an integrated circuit .
▪
Many researchers are investigating ways to build neural networks directly in integrated circuits .
▪
The brain is not a printed circuit board.
▪
Then I made printed circuits for Gulton Industries.
use
▪
That current can be used by computer circuits without any further treatment.
▪
The machines, using highspeed digital circuits and a punched-card format, were the forerunners of the modern computer.
▪
I could tour it just like a normal album but I could use the art circuit as kind of a base audience.
▪
Invertebrates sometimes use local circuits in the periphery, but many actions demand an integrated response of many parts of the body.
▪
Always use a circuit breaker for added safety.
▪
Operation of the D-type bistable may be illustrated using the circuit shown in Fig. 10.
▪
You can, as a matter of course, help to protect yourself from electric shocks by using a circuit breaker.
▪
Readers require precision timings, perhaps for other purposes, should use an alternative circuit .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
Gund did a circuit around the ice rink.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
Even when the installation has been undertaken by an expert, the inclusion of a circuit breaker is a wise precaution.
▪
He intends to push the record to over 9000 miles by walking another 2000 miles to complete the circuit .
▪
I have done the circuit many times before, but always with sitting in the co-pilots seat.
▪
It searched its memories, and the logic circuits made their decisions, according to the orders given them long ago.
▪
It therefore reproduces the linear small-signal response of any four-terminal network and is appropriately referred to as the Z-parameter equivalent circuit .
▪
The checking procedure is something that can be achieved much more rapidly than finding the Hamiltonian circuit in the first place.