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short circuit
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun short circuit has 1 sense
- short circuit(n = noun.artifact) short - accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference; Array is a part of circuit, electric circuit, electrical circuit
is a kind of contact, tangency
CIDE DICTIONARY
short circuit,
A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
short circuit
amplify, break, broken circuit, charge, circuit, circuital field, closed circuit, complete circuit, dead circuit, electrify, energize, galvanic circuit, galvanize, generate, hot circuit, lateral circuit, leg, live circuit, loop, loop in, magnetic circuit, microcircuit, multiple circuit, multiple series, path, plug in, printed circuit, series multiple, shock, short, step down, step up, stiffen, switch off, switch on, turn off, turn on, vector field
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