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 # ⚡️ "CIRCT" / Circuit IR Compilers and Tools
 
-"CIRCT" stands for "Circuit IR Compilers and Tools".  One might also interpret
+"CIRCT" stands for "Circuit Intermediate Representations (IR) Compilers and Tools".  One might also interpret
 it as the recursively as "CIRCT IR Compiler and Tools".  The T can be
 selectively expanded as Tool, Translator, Team, Technology, Target, Tree, Type,
 ... we're ok with the ambiguity.