Noun

(en noun)

An abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined.

* 1907 , Tada Kanai, translated by Arthur Lloyd, Seven Buddhist Sermons , ""

Why should we despise anything in the realm of Buddha?

* 2006 , Christian Neef, " Diary of a Collapsing Superpower", Spiegel Magazine , November 22,

At home in Moscow, Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev, who had launched a campaign to rejuvenate the Soviet realm  

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The domain of a certain abstraction.

* 1922 , Judson Eber Conant,The Church The Schools and Evolution , "",

One thing more which the scientific man does is to accord primacy to that realm of truth which is primary in importance.

(formal, or, legal) A territory or state, as ruled by a specific power, and particularly those territories ruled by a king.

* 1874 , ,

And, of this island realm , he and his companion were the undisputed sovereigns.

* 1913 , Leslie Alexander Toke, Catholic Encyclopedia , "",

Then seeing his life was threatened he fled the realm and crossed over to Flanders,

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.

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(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.