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Short circuit   /ʃɔrt sˈərkət/   Listen
Short circuit

noun
1.
Accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference.  Synonym: short.






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"Short circuit" Quotes from Famous Books



... however, that the jolting and handling to which these batteries are subjected, in traction work, increases the tendency to disintegrate, buckle and short circuit, and that the record for durability for this application can never be the same as for stationary work. A serious inconvenience to the use of batteries in traction work is the necessary presence of the liquid in the jars. This causes the whole ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 • Various

... reason of demonstrating the existence of a Supreme Being, is not only, like the first, illusory and inadequate, but possesses the additional blemish of an ignoratio elenchi—professing to conduct us by a new road to the desired goal, but bringing us back, after a short circuit, to the old path which we had ...
— The Critique of Pure Reason • Immanuel Kant

... as he was insistent upon an explanation. What finally happened, the very thing the boys tried to avoid in every way, came when he touched the two wires, and formed a short circuit through his hand. ...
— The Wonder Island Boys: Treasures of the Island • Roger Thompson Finlay



Words linked to "Short circuit" :   circuit, short, tangency, contact, electrical circuit, electric circuit



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