parallel circuit

American  

[par-uh-lel sur-kit] / ˈpær əˌlɛl ˈsɜr kɪt /

noun

parallel circuits plural

1. Electricity. a circuit in which the current flows through two or more paths that share the same two endpoints, so that a failure of flow in any one path will not prevent the other paths from carrying the current. Compare series circuit.

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parallel circuit Scientific  

1. See under circuit

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Noun Inflected Forms

• parallel circuits
  plural

Example Sentences

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parallel circuit

Each resistor in a parallel circuit has the same full voltage of the source applied to it.

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

The current flowing through each resistor in a parallel circuit is different, depending on the resistance.

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

You remember that a stream of electrons which is starting or stopping can induce the electrons of a neighboring parallel circuit to start off in parallel paths.

From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John

It ceased when a repeater-tube went out and a parallel circuit took over.

From The Machine That Saved The World by Leinster, Murray

The current to be measured flowed through both coils in parallel circuit, the one representing its quantity expressible in amperes, and the other its potential expressible in volts.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 by Various