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Short circuit
A usually unintentional connection of low resistance or impedance in a circuit such that excessive and often damaging current flows in it.
📖 Definitions of "Short circuit"
noun
- 1
A usually unintentional connection of low resistance or impedance in a circuit such that excessive and often damaging current flows in it.
verb
- 1
To cause a short circuit in
- 2
(by extension) to force termination of an ongoing process before its natural conclusion by bypassing one or more intermediary steps
- 3
To terminate a loop before the declared termination condition is met or a conditional before all conditions have been tested for
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