"return path" meaning in English

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      "form": "return paths",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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      "expansion": "return path (plural return paths)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, page 136",
          "text": "The inner, or negative, rail is also known as the 'current return' rail, because electrical current needs a circuit - a return path to earth, in other words.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, pages 30-31",
          "text": "One rail (known as the traction return rail) is not broken into [track circuit] sections as it provides the return path for the current.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The route by which a current or signal returns to its source, or to earth."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "electricity",
          "electricity"
        ],
        [
          "route",
          "route"
        ],
        [
          "current",
          "current"
        ],
        [
          "signal",
          "signal"
        ],
        [
          "earth",
          "earth"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(electricity) The route by which a current or signal returns to its source, or to earth."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "electrical-engineering",
        "electricity",
        "electromagnetism",
        "energy",
        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ]
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  "word": "return path"
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      "form": "return paths",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, page 136",
          "text": "The inner, or negative, rail is also known as the 'current return' rail, because electrical current needs a circuit - a return path to earth, in other words.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, pages 30-31",
          "text": "One rail (known as the traction return rail) is not broken into [track circuit] sections as it provides the return path for the current.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The route by which a current or signal returns to its source, or to earth."
      ],
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        [
          "electricity",
          "electricity"
        ],
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          "route",
          "route"
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          "current",
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          "signal",
          "signal"
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          "earth",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(electricity) The route by which a current or signal returns to its source, or to earth."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "electrical-engineering",
        "electricity",
        "electromagnetism",
        "energy",
        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
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  "word": "return path"
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