Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A going round; movement in a circle or circuit.
- Hence A roundabout manner of moving or acting; departure from the nearest or straightest way or line: as, the circuity and delay of justice.
- A tendency to assume a circular form; the state of being circular.
- Compass; extent; circuit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A going round in a circle; a course not direct; a roundabout way of proceeding.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
circuitous plan; aroundabout way of doing something
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Examples
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The Kindle battery lasted longer in theory, but the circuity for when I turned on the wireless each morning to take my newspapers tended to eat up way more battery than you'd expect, and the Kindle said its battery likes to be charged often instead of drain-and-charge, so I can settle with the battery life on the touch.
The Apple E-Book Reader The Brillig Blogger 2009
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The Kindle battery lasted longer in theory, but the circuity for when I turned on the wireless each morning to take my newspapers tended to eat up way more battery than you'd expect, and the Kindle said its battery likes to be charged often instead of drain-and-charge, so I can settle with the battery life on the touch.
Archive 2009-08-01 The Brillig Blogger 2009
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With all of the retro cool analog phone sets and other low-tech gear on Battlestar Galactica, FTL (faster than light) drive not withstanding I was beginning to get the impression that the whole thing ran on vacuum tubes, that maybe some EMP (electromagnetic pulse for you non-geeks) had fried all of the circuity that runs computers.
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There were maintenance techs better equipped than she to repair the circuity, restoring the ability of occupants to open the door without requiring an electronic key from the outside.
REBELS: THE LIBERATED, BOOK III OF III DAFYDD AB HUGH 2008
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There were maintenance techs better equipped than she to repair the circuity, restoring the ability of occupants to open the door without requiring an electronic key from the outside.
REBELS: THE LIBERATED, BOOK III OF III DAFYDD AB HUGH 2008
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With Norton CyberSecure 7791, Bio-Neuro signals can be automatically rerouted around damaged circuity caused during light saber duels or from blaster wounds.
And Me, With A Pain In All The Diodes Down My Left Side 2005
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It always struck me that the experience of Settlers Serf City was more like designing electronic circuity then the actual ideas, concepts and challenges behind the growth of medieval settlements.
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He seemed groping for a fresh beginning, then gave up suddenly all attempt at circuity and blurted it out much as though he had lived with the thought too long to endure it longer alone.
Then I'll Come Back to You Larry Evans
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As he was to give him four hundred pounds, why did he, or Mr. Butt (for they are one and the same) take so much trouble, and go through so much circuity in shifting and changing the bank notes?
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After much search, and lumbering painfully up two or three staircases in vain, and at last going about in a strange circuity, we found her in a small chamber of a large old building, situated a little way from the brow of the Tarpeian Rock.
Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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