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Flashover

noun
1.
An unintended electric discharge (as over or around an insulator).





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"Flashover" Quotes from Famous Books



... stoker had. He'd been singing while he worked with one arm dead, one sleeve ripped open and badly patched because the fabric was slippery with blood. There'd been a flashover in the drivers. By the time his relief got down there, he had the insulation back on, and the drive was purring along the way it should have been. It hadn't even ...
— The Stoker and the Stars • Algirdas Jonas Budrys (AKA John A. Sentry)


Words linked to "Flashover" :   electric arc, spark, electric discharge, arc, discharge


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