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noun Electricity.
a circuit derived from two suitably arranged pairs of wires, each pair being a circuit (side circuit ) and also acting as one half of an additional derived circuit, the entire system providing the capabilities of three circuits while requiring wires for only two.
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Origin of phantom circuit
First recorded in 1880–85
Words nearby phantom circuit
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How to use phantom circuit in a sentence
The phantom circuit uses one of the physical pairs as a wire of its line.
Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2|Kempster MillerA phantom circuit is formed most simply when both physical lines end in the same two offices.
Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2|Kempster MillerIn doing so, each phantom circuit is transposed with proper regard to each of the other three on that twenty-wire line.
Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2|Kempster Miller