The difference between Circuit and Integrated circuit

When used as nouns, circuit means the act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit, whereas integrated circuit means a thin chip, usually of silicon, consisting of at least two interconnected semiconductor devices, mainly transistors.


Circuit is also verb with the meaning: to move in a circle.

check bellow for the other definitions of Circuit and Integrated circuit

  1. Circuit as a noun:

    The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution

  2. Circuit as a noun:

    The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area.

  3. Circuit as a noun:

    That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.

  4. Circuit as a noun:

    The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.

  5. Circuit as a noun (electricity):

    Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.

  6. Circuit as a noun:

    A regular or appointed trip from place to place as part of one's job

  7. Circuit as a noun (legal):

    The jurisdiction of certain judges within a state or country, whether itinerant or not.

  8. Circuit as a noun (historical):

    Various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China, including: The counties at the fringes of the empire, usually with a non-Chinese population, from the Han to the Western Jin. The 10 or so major provinces of the empire from the Tang to the early Yuan. Major provincial divisions from the Yuan to early Republican China.

  9. Circuit as a noun (legal):

  10. Circuit as a noun (Methodist Church):

    A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.

  11. Circuit as a noun:

    By analogy to the proceeding three, a set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville.

  12. Circuit as a noun (motor racing):

    A track on which a race in held.

  13. Circuit as a noun (obsolete):

    circumlocution

  14. Circuit as a noun (Scientology):

    A thought that unconsciously goes round and round in a person's mind and controls that person.

  1. Circuit as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek J. Philips"

  2. Circuit as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To travel around.

    Examples:

    "Having circuited the air."

  1. Integrated circuit as a noun (electronics):

    a thin chip, usually of silicon, consisting of at least two interconnected semiconductor devices, mainly transistors