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circuit

[sur-kit] / ˈsɜr kɪt /


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Researchers at Aalto University have now taken an important step by demonstrating the first cyclic quantum heat engine built inside a superconducting circuit.

From Science Daily Aug. 14, 2026

The band toured the U.S., playing anywhere that would have them; there was no touring circuit for original bands starting out back then.

From Salon Aug. 10, 2026

For two weeks each spring, as the young start venturing from their burrows, this team drives a daily circuit and records every numbat spotted.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

By 2012, Wang had co-founded what became Dongguan ICT Technology, an 80-person firm exporting automated robotic systems that assemble circuit boards used in virtually all modern electronics.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

In shop, Yolanda has her head down low over her circuit board and doesn’t look up when I take my seat next to her.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée

Autonomous devices integrated directly into superconducting circuits could reduce both the cost and complexity of machines containing very large numbers of qubits.

From Science Daily Aug. 14, 2026

At the heart of Britain's coin factory, old Bank of England telephones are stripped down and dipped into giant vats to recover a hidden treasure: the gold in their circuits.

From Barron's Aug. 4, 2026

An ant brain contains about 60,000 cells, compared with roughly 100 million in a mouse brain, so scientists may be able to study the underlying circuits in much greater detail and at a faster pace.

From Science Daily Aug. 1, 2026

As of Thursday, two circuits have affirmed the government’s position and six opposed it, teeing up what experts call an inevitable Supreme Court challenge.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

Myelin is often likened to the plastic coating around electrical wires—it insulates the neural circuits, making them about a hundred times faster than unmyelinated circuits.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

For centuries, even millennia, people learned songs through the oral tradition, which has been short circuited by the advent of electronic media and inexpensive print communications, in just the last century.

From New York Times Sep. 19, 2016

She shows no bitterness about the turn of events that short circuited her diplomatic trajectory.

From Washington Times May 31, 2014

Their invention, Roominate, offers girls the experience of building a working circuited dollhouse in pastel colors.

From Time Nov. 27, 2013

Wouldn’t that have short- circuited, say, the return of Steve Jobs to Apple?

From BusinessWeek Nov. 30, 2011

R. M. Cummings, the boy in charge of the light, said that it was short circuited.

From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various

Her thoughts spiraled: “Is he short circuiting? I thought…Is this a stroke?…Has he been drugged?”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 1, 2026

The explosion in Karachi was the result of short circuiting inside a room where the electric system is controlled, according to Nasir Aftab, who is deputy-inspector general for the city’s police.

From Seattle Times Oct. 29, 2021

Barbare spent much of her time circuiting the provinces, trying to help her feckless husband and then her hapless son salvage catastrophic careers.

From The New Yorker Apr. 22, 2019

After being transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he spent the next four months circuiting a nexus of prisons and detention centers.

From New York Times Dec. 9, 2015

The circuiting is shown diagramatically, as it is called, so as fully to explain how the lines are run.

From Electricity for Boys by James Slough Zerbe




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