| 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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