| 单词 | electric circuit | 
| 释义 | > as lemmaselectric circuit   electric circuit  n. a (usually closed) path along which electricity can flow; the conductor, or the set of conductors, components, etc., which constitutes such a path. ΚΠ 1748    W. Watson in  Philos. Trans. 1747 		(Royal Soc.)	 44 718  				Several Experiments shew, that the electrical Force always describes a Circuit.]			 1764    W. Watson in  Philos. Trans. 1763 		(Royal Soc.)	 53 16  				It is now seventeen years since, that I communicated it to you..that by means of the electric circuit I could cause the electricity to pervade any muscle. 1767    J. Priestley Hist. & Present State Electr.  viii. 651  				The conductors which form an electric circuit. 1879    G. B. Prescott Speaking Telephone 		(new ed.)	 5  				The telephone is a device for transmitting..over an electric circuit..various kinds of sound. 1910    J. Erskine-Murray Wireless Telephones vii. 51  				An electric circuit will respond most readily to impulses which come timed to its own natural rate of vibration. 1992    Independent 31 Oct. 4/1  				People with meters are given a ‘smart key’, a two-inch piece of plastic containing an electric circuit which can be charged with units of credit. < as lemmas | 
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