The penalty for a hit-and-run accident conviction that caused one or more deaths (or serious physical injury) is a felony punishable by imprisonment of 5-20 years and/or a fine of $1,000-$10,000, as well as revocation of driver's license.
The definition of an open circuit is  a broken path for an electrical current due to an open switch or frayed wire. An example of an open circuit is a string of electric lights that donât work if one bulb goes out.
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of closed circuit): parallel circuit; shunt circuit (a closed circuit in which the current divides into two or more paths before recombining to complete the circuit) Antonym: open circuit (an incomplete electrical circuit in which no current flows)