Noun

(en noun)

A part, portion, or subdivision.

A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.

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A subdivision of an organization.

# One of the principal divisions of executive government

the Treasury Department'''''; ''the '''Department''' of Agriculture''; ''police '''department

# One of the divisions of instructions

the physics department'''''; ''the gender studies '''department

A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes.

* 2002 , , The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to the 1715-99 , Penguin 2003, p. 427:

The departments were the bricks from which the edifice of the nation was to be constructed.

(label) A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.

(label) Act of departing; departure.

* (and other bibliographic particulars), Wotton

sudden 'departments from one extreme to another

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.