circuit

(definition)

Definition: (1) An acyclic network of inputs, logic gates, and outputs. Contrasted with a Turing machine, it has no memory. (2) A cycle in a graph.

Note: From Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, page 27-21, Copyright © 1999 by CRC Press LLC. Appearing in the Dictionary of Computer Science, Engineering and Technology, Copyright © 2000 CRC Press LLC.

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Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, CRC Press LLC, 1999 and Paul E. Black, "circuit", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 29 September 2004. (accessed TODAY) Available from: http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/circuit.html