Circuit vs. Route — What's the Difference?

A closed, usually circular line that goes around an object or area.

A road, course, or way for travel from one place to another

The region enclosed by such a line.

A highway

A path or route the complete traversal of which without local change of direction requires returning to the starting point.

A fixed course or territory assigned to a salesperson or delivery person.

The act of following such a path or route.

A means of reaching a goal

A journey made on such a path or route.

(Football) A pass pattern.

A closed path followed or capable of being followed by an electric current.

To send or forward by a specific route.

A configuration of electrically or electromagnetically connected components or devices.

A course or way which is traveled or passed.

A regular or accustomed course from place to place; a round:a salesperson on the Detroit–Minneapolis–Chicago circuit; a popular speaker on the lecture circuit.

A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.

The area covered by such a course, especially by the judge or judges of a court.

A road or path; often specifically a highway.

An association of theaters in which plays, acts, or films move from theater to theater for presentation.

(figuratively) One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.

A group of nightclubs, show halls, or resorts at which enterners appear in turn.

(historical) One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits.

A series of competitions held in different places.

(computing) A specific entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives.

To make a circuit or circuit of.

(horse racing) A race longer than one mile.

The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution

(transitive) To direct or divert along a particular course.

The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area.

(Internet) to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet.

That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.

To send (information) through a router.

The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.

The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march.

(electricity) Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.

An established line of travel or access

A regular or appointed trip from place to place as part of one's job

An open way (generally public) for travel or transportation

(legal) The jurisdiction of certain judges within a state or country, whether itinerant or not.

Send documents or materials to appropriate destinations

(historical) Various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China, including:

Send via a specific route

The counties at the fringes of the empire, usually with a non-Chinese population, from the Han to the Western Jin.

Divert in a specified direction;

The 10 or so major provinces of the empire from the Tang to the early Yuan.

Major provincial divisions from the Yuan to early Republican China.

(legal) circuit court

(Methodism) The basic grouping of local Methodist churches.

By analogy to the proceeding three, a set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville.

(motor racing) A track on which a race in held; a racetrack

(obsolete) circumlocution

(Scientology) A thought that unconsciously goes round and round in a person's mind and controls that person.

(graph theory) A closed path, without repeated vertices allowed.

A chain of cinemas/movie theaters.

To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.

To travel around.

The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun.

The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area.

That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.

The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits.

A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.

A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice.

Circumlocution.

To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.

To travel around.

An electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow

A journey or route all the way around a particular place or area;

An established itinerary of venues or events that a particular group of people travel to;

(law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different locations); one of the twelve groups of states in the United States that is covered by a particular circuit court of appeals

A racetrack for automobile races

Movement once around a course;

Make a circuit;