| dealings traffic | social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') |
departure
going going away
leaving | the act of departing |
springboard
jumping-off point
point of departure | a beginning from which an enterprise is launched, he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own, reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions, the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out |
lap circle
circuit | movement once around a course, he drove an extra lap just for insurance |
tour
circuit | a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area, they took an extended tour of Europe, we took a quick circuit of the park, a ten-day coach circuit of the island |
| traffic control | control of the flow of traffic in a building or a city |
| traffic | buying and selling, especially illicit trade |
drug traffic
drug trafficking
narcotraffic | traffic in illegal drugs |
slave trade
slave traffic | traffic in slaves, especially in Black Africans transported to America in the th to th centuries |
airfield
landing field
flying field
field | a place where planes take off and land |
AND circuit
AND gate | a circuit in a computer that fires only when all of its inputs fire |
| auxiliary airfield | an airfield that functions in a subsidiary capacity |
| bridge bridge circuit | a circuit consisting of two branches ( arms arranged in a diamond configuration) across which a meter is connected |
circuit
electrical circuit
electric circuit | an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow |
circuit board
circuit card
board card plug-in
add-in | a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities |
circuit breaker
breaker | a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded |
closed circuit
loop | a complete electrical circuit around which current flows or a signal circulates |
| computer circuit | a circuit that is part of a computer |
control circuit
negative feedback circuit | a feedback circuit that subtracts from the input |
| departure gate | gate where passengers embark |
| departure lounge | lounge where passengers can await departure |
feedback circuit
feedback loop | a circuit that feeds back some of the output to the input of a system |
integrated circuit
microcircuit | a microelectronic computer circuit incorporated into a chip or semiconductor, a whole system rather than a single component |
light circuit
lighting circuit | wiring that provides power to electric lights |
NAND circuit
NAND gate | a logic gate that produces an output that is the inverse of the output of an AND gate |
| open circuit | an incomplete electrical circuit in which no current flows |
OR circuit
OR gate | a gate circuit in a computer that fires when any of its inputs fire |
parallel circuit
shunt circuit | a closed circuit in which the current divides into two or more paths before recombining to complete the circuit |
| printed circuit | computer circuit consisting of an electronic sub-assembly, copper conductors are laminated on an insulating board or card and circuit components are inserted into holes and dip soldered |
| pulse timing circuit | a circuit that times pulses |
racing circuit
circuit | a racetrack for automobile races |
| resonator resonant circuit | an electrical circuit that combines capacitance and inductance in such a way that a periodic electric oscillation will reach maximum amplitude |
| series circuit | a circuit having its parts connected serially |
short circuit
short | accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference |
squelch circuit
squelch
squelcher | an electric circuit that cuts off a receiver when the signal becomes weaker than the noise |
| tank circuit | an oscillatory circuit |
telephone line
phone line
telephone circuit
subscriber line
line | a telephone connection |
traffic circle
circle rotary
roundabout | a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island, the accident blocked all traffic at the rotary |
traffic island
safety island
safety isle
safety zone | a curbed area in a roadway from which traffic is excluded, provides safe area for pedestrians |
| traffic lane | a lane of a main road that is defined by painted lines, that car is in the wrong traffic lane |
X-OR circuit
XOR circuit
XOR gate | gate for exclusive OR, a circuit in a computer that fires only if only one of its inputs fire |
traffic light
traffic signal
stoplight | a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections |
| traffic | the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time, heavy traffic overloaded the trunk lines, traffic on the internet is lightest during the night |
passing
loss departure
exit
expiration
going
release | euphemistic expressions for death, thousands mourned his passing |
deviation
divergence
departure difference | a variation that deviates from the standard or norm, the deviation from the mean |
traffic jam
snarl-up | a number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move |
| circuit court of appeals | one of the twelve federal United States courts of appeals that cover a group of states known as a `circuit' |
| circuit | (law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (soalled 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 |
| traffic court | a court that has power to prosecute for traffic offenses |
| traffic | the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time |