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1. An act or instance of going or moving around.
2. A circular journey or one which begins and ends at the same place; around.
3. A roundabout journey or course.
4. A periodical journey from place to place, to perform certain duties, as by judges who hold court, ministers who preach, or salespeople covering a route.
5. The route followed, places visited, or districts covered by people who make journeys to perform their duties.
6. The line going around or bounding any area or object; the distance around an area or object.
7. The space within a bounding line or district; such as, the circuit of the valley.
8. In the electrical field, an electric circuit or the complete path of an electric current, including the generating apparatus, intervening resistors, or capacitors.
9. In telecommunications, a means of transmitting communication signals or messages, usually consisting of two channels for interactive communication.
10. A number of theaters, nightclubs, etc., controlled by the same owner or manager or visited in turn by the same entertainers or acting companies.

Etymology: From about 1382, Old French circuit, from Latin circuitus, "a going around", from the stem of circuire, circumire, "to go around", from circum, "around" plus -ire, "to go".

1. Being or taking a roundabout, lengthy course.
2. Roundabout; not direct; such as, a circuitous route; a circuitous argument.
3. Marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct.
4. Deviating from a straight course; "Her father took a circuitous route to avoid the rush-hour traffic."

In a circuit.

Circular, winding, indirect, meandering.

1. The design of or a detailed plan for an electric circuit.
2. Electric circuits considered as a group.
3. The science of designing electric or electronic circuits.
4. The circuits themselves and the components of such circuits.

To agitate on all sides.

Moving or stirring around or about.

1. Being encompassed on all sides; surrounded.
2. Being enclosed or being on all sides.

1. Surrounding; to encircle something completely.
2. An area or border around a specific thing or place.

Circumambient comes from Latin circum, "around, round about, on all sides" plus ambire, "to go around, to surround", from amb-, "on both sides, around" plus ire, "to go".

1. To walk around (something), especially as part of a ritual.
2. To avoid the point of a subject or discussion.

A walking abroad; a promenading.

Someone who walks around (something), especially as part of a ritual.

The capability of walking around or of travelling around: "He was planning on a circumambulatory trip around the country."

Located around the antarctic region.

Distributed around the high latitudes of the southern hemisphere; such as, circumaustral distribution.