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Circuit vs Schema - What's the difference?

circuit | schema |

As nouns the difference between circuit and schema

is that circuit is the act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth around the sun while schema is schema, diagram.

As a verb circuit

is (obsolete) to move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.

circuit

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth around the sun.
  • The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area.
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  • That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
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  • The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.
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  • (electricity) Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.
  • A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.
  • (legal) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice.
  • (legal)
  • (Methodist Church) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.
  • By analogy to the proceeding three, a set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville.
  • (obsolete) circumlocution
  • * Huloet
  • Thou hast used no circuit of words.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
  • (obsolete) To travel around.
  • Having circuited the air.
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    schema

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind (for example, a ).
  • (databases) A formal description of the structure of a database: the names of the tables, the names of the columns of each table, and the data type and other attributes of each column.
  • (markup languages) A formal description of data, data types, and data file structures, such as for XML files.
  • (logic) A formula in the language of an axiomatic system, in which one or more schematic variables appear, which stand for any term or subformula of the system, which may or may not be required to satisfy certain conditions.
  • Synonyms

    * (universally-applicable image or outline) schemat * (databases) schemat * (logic) axiom schema, schemat

    Derived terms

    * conceptual schema * logical schema * physical schema

    Anagrams

    * *

    References

    * “ schema]” listed in the [[w:Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford English Dictionary] , second edition (1989) English nouns with irregular plurals ----