short circuit

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

A usually unintentional connection of low resistance or impedance in a circuit such that excessive and often damaging current flows in it.

Verb

1. (broadly, transitive) To cause a short circuit in.
2. (intransitive) To undergo a short circuit.
3. (broadly, transitive) To force termination of an ongoing process before its natural conclusion, by bypassing one or more intermediary steps.
4. (broadly, transitive) To impede or disrupt.
5. (transitive) To bypass, especially by overhastiness.
6. (transitive) To terminate a loop before the declared termination condition is met, or a conditional before all conditions have been tested for.

Conceptes

curtcircuit

curt circuit

Sinònims

short

leakage

power failure

short-circuit

short pass

cutting-out

short out

fault

direct short

Traduccions

Kurzschluss

court-circuit

cortocircuito

cortocircuito

βραχυκύκλωμα

kortsluiting

curto-circuito

corto circuito

cortacircuito

court-circuiter

corto

court-jus

elektrischer Kurzschluss

court circuit

Etimologia (Anglès)

short + circuit