Break-circuit
(n.) A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit. |
Butterfly
(n.) A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera. |
Circuit
(n.) The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit |
Circuit
(n.) The circumference of, or distance round, any space |
Circuit
(n.) That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown. |
Circuit
(n.) The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits. |
Circuit
(n.) A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher. |
Circuit
(n.) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice. |
Circuit
(n.) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors. |
Circuit
(n.) Circumlocution. |
Circuit
(v. i.) To move in a circle |
Circuit
(v. t.) To travel around. |
Guide
(n.) The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder. |
Guide
(v. t.) To lead or direct in a way |
Guide
(v. t.) To regulate and manage |
Guide
(v. t.) A person who leads or directs another in his way or course, as in a strange land |
Guide
(v. t.) One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of lifo |
Guide
(v. t.) Any contrivance, especially one having a directing edge, surface, or channel, for giving direction to the motion of anything, as water, an instrument, or part of a machine, or for directing the hand or eye, as of an operator |
Guide
(v. t.) A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets. |
Guide
(v. t.) A grooved director for a probe or knife. |
Guide
(v. t.) A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting. |
Guide
(v. t.) A noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the directiug flank of each subdivision of a column of troops, or at the end of a line, to mark the pivots, formations, marches, and alignments in tactics. |
Sea butterfly
() A pteropod. |
Short circuit
() A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity. |
Short-circuit
(v. t.) To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance. |
Wave
(v. t.) See Waive. |
Wave
(v. i.) To play loosely |
Wave
(v. i.) To be moved to and fro as a signal. |
Wave
(v. i.) To fluctuate |
Wave
(v. t.) To move one way and the other |
Wave
(v. t.) To raise into inequalities of surface |
Wave
(v. t.) To move like a wave, or by floating |
Wave
(v. t.) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand |
Wave
(v. i.) An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest |
Wave
(v. i.) A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound |
Wave
(v. i.) Water |
Wave
(v. i.) Unevenness |
Wave
(v. i.) A waving or undulating motion |
Wave
(v. i.) The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel. |
Wave
(v. i.) Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy |
Wave
(n.) Woe. |
overshoot
wave-off
go-around | an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt |
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 |
| wave | a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon, a wave of settlers, troops advancing in waves |
butterfly
butterfly stroke | a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down |
| butterfly ray | a stingray with a short tail and a broad fin |
| honey guide | small bird of tropical Africa and Asia, feeds on beeswax and honey and larvae |
| guide dog | a dog trained to guide the blind |
| butterfly | diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings |
nymphalid
nymphalid butterfly
brush-footed butterfly
four-footed butterfly | medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and mucheduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast |
mourning cloak
mourning cloak butterfly
Camberwell beauty
Nymphalis antiopa | of temperate regions, having dark purple wings with yellow borders |
| tortoiseshell tortoiseshell butterfly | brilliantly colored, larvae feed on nettles |
ringlet
ringlet butterfly | any of various butterflies belonging to the family Satyridae |
comma
comma butterfly
Polygonia comma | anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing |
emperor butterfly
emperor | large richly colored butterfly |
peacock peacock butterfly
Inachis io | European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot |
danaid
danaid butterfly | large tropical butterfly with degenerate forelegs and an unpleasant taste |
monarch
monarch butterfly
milkweed butterfly
Danaus plexippus | large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings, the larvae feed on milkweed |
pierid
pierid butterfly | any of numerous paleolored butterflies having three pairs of well-developed legs |
| cabbage butterfly | white butterfly whose larvae (cabbageworms) feed on cabbage |
southern cabbage butterfly
Pieris protodice | common North American form of cabbage butterfly |
sulphur butterfly
sulfur butterfly | any of numerous yellow or orange butterflies |
lycaenid
lycaenid butterfly | any of various butterflies of the family Lycaenidae |
hairstreak
hairstreak butterfly | small butterflies having striped markings under the wings |
| butterfly fish | small usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins, found worldwide |
AND circuit
AND gate | a circuit in a computer that fires only when all of its inputs fire |
| bridge bridge circuit | a circuit consisting of two branches ( arms arranged in a diamond configuration) across which a meter is connected |
| butterfly valve | a valve in a carburetor that consists of a disc that turns and acts as a throttle |
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 |
feedback circuit
feedback loop | a circuit that feeds back some of the output to the input of a system |
| full-wave rectifier | rectifier that converts the negative half wave of an alternating current into a positive half wave |
| guide | a structure or marking that serves to direct the motion or positioning of something |
| guide rope | a rope used to guide the movement of the load of a crane |
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 |