The term Open circuit may refer to:
- Open-circuit scuba, a type of SCUBA-diving equipment where the user breathes from the set and then exhales to the surroundings without recycling the exhaled air
- Open circuit test, a method used in electrical engineering to determine the impedance in the excitation branch of a real transformer
- Open-circuit voltage, the difference of electrical potential between two terminals of a device when there is no external load connected
- An electric circuit is an "open circuit" if it lacks a complete path between the positive and negative terminals of its power source
Famous quotes containing the words open and/or circuit:
“Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One’s relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
“each new victim treads unfalteringly
The never altered circuit of his fate,
Bringing twelve peers as witness
Both to his starry rise and starry fall.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)