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Definition: Short Circuit |
Short CircuitNoun1. Accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Energy | An electric current taking a shorter or different path than intended. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A short circuit is a fault in electrical apparatus whereby electrical current is allowed to flow between a phase and the electrical earth or between two phases.Short circuits are usually caused when a breakdown of insulation occurs, or when a conducting medium, such as water allows current to flow.
Short circuits can cause significant damage to electrical installations, which are normally protected by fuses, circuit breaker or other overload protection. In computer programming, short circuiting is a method of evaluating boolean expressions in which only the first argument of the '\'and and or operators is evaluated if this is sufficient to determine the value overall. In the case of and, if the first argument is false, the whole expression is false, and the second argument is not evaluated. In the case of or'', if the first argument is true, the whole expression is true, and the second argument is not evaluated. Not only may this eliminate expensive computation in the second argument, but it allows a style of programming where the first argument first checks a condition without which the second argument may cause a run-time error.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Short circuit."
Synonym: Short CircuitSynonym: short (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: short-circuit (electrical engineering). |
Crosswords: Short Circuit |
| English words defined with "short circuit": fault ♦ lightning arrester. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "short circuit": Crit ♦ earth fault, electronic sentry ♦ non-dissipative stub ♦ OBSERVER, SEISMIC PROSPECTING ♦ TANK-HOUSE OPERATOR, T-B cell, TB-cell, TESTER AND INSPECTOR, LAMPS, transmitter blocker cell, transmitter-blocker cell. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Short Circuit Case (1966) Short Circuit 2 (1988) | |
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Expression using "short circuit": adjustable short circuit. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
short circuit | 95 |
short circuit calculation | 23 |
short circuit movie | 18 |
short circuit 2 | 15 |
short circuit robot | 4 |
short circuit dvd | 4 |
short circuit software | 4 |
short circuit study | 4 |
short circuit film | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "short circuit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | qark i shkurtër, lutem (appeal, be at one's devotions, beg, entreat, implore, petition, plead, please, pray, solicit, supplicate), bëj qark i shkurtër. (various references) | |
Arabic | قصر الدائرة, إنقطاع التيار, إختصر الطريق (cut across, take a short cut), دائرة فصيرة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съкращавам път, съкращавам процедура (shortcut, take a shortcut), спъвам (beset, clog, cramp, embarrass, entangle, fetter, hinder, hobble, impede, interfere, preclude, prevent, prohibit, retard, set back, shackle, snag, snub, tie, trammel, trig), късо съединение (short, shortcut-circuit), осуетявам (abort, baffle, disappoint, foil, frustrate, mock, pour cold water on, scatter, scotch, sink, spoil, wash out), заобикалям (beat, begird, beset, bridge, bypass, circumambulate, circumnavigate, circumvent, compass, double, elude, encircle, environ, evade, get round, gird, girdle, leapfrog, make a detour, pass round, round, sidestep, skirt, stretch, surround, work round), правя късо съединение (short), попречвам на (baffle, discourage, head off, snag, weigh against, withhold). (various references) | |
Czech | zkrat, krátké spojení. (various references) | |
Danish | stempel (adjustable short circuit, die-stamped marking, male plug, matrix, piston, plunger, plunger tip, stamp, stamper). (various references) | |
Dutch | kortsluiting (avulsion, short-circuiting). (various references) | |
Esperanto | fuŝkontakto. (various references) | |
Finnish | oikosulku (accidental earth, short-circuiting). (various references) | |
French | court-circuit (short). (various references) | |
German | kurzschluss (rash action, short). (various references) | |
Greek | βραχυκύκλωμα, ελαττωματική ηλεκτρική ένωσισ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | rövidzárlat (blow out, burnt-out coil, short, short-circuit), rövidzár, rövidre zár áramkört, egyszerûsít (simplify). (various references) | |
Italian | corto circuito. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 漏電 (leakage, power failure). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | た"ろ, ろうで" (leakage, power failure), ショートサーキット . (various references) | |
Manx | giare-hymshal. (various references) | |
Norwegian | kortslutning. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ortshay ircuitcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | curto-circuito (dead short, short), curto‐circuito. (various references) | |
Romanian | scurt-circuit. (various references) | |
Russian | короткое замыкание (short-circuit, shortcut-circuit). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kratko prespojiti. (various references) | |
Spanish | cortocircuito (short), cortacircuito. (various references) | |
Swedish | sätta stopp för (put an end to, put the kibosh on, put the lid on), kortslutning (shortcircuit), kortsluta, kortsluning, hindra (balk, bar, baulk, clog, constrain, contain, cramp, cross, cumber, curb, detain, embarrass, encumber, forbid, foreclose, hamper, hamstring, hedge, hinder, impede, inhibit, interfere with, keep back, obstruct, occlude, preclude, prevent, put back, snag, stay, stymie, trammel, traverse), förkorta (abbreviate, abridge, curtail, cut, encapsulate, reduce, shorten, telescope), förenkla (simplify). (various references) | |
Turkish | uzak durmak (avoid, avoid smb., dissociate oneself from, give a wide berth to, keep aloof, keep away, keep away from, keep off, keep one's distance, keep out, keep out of, shrink away, shun, stand aloof, stand apart, stand off, stay away from), kontak (ignition, short, shortchange), kolaylaştırmak (be helpful, catalyze, ease, expedite, facilitate, further, make a dent in, make easy, pave the way, pave the way for, remit, simplify, smooth, smooth the way, streamline), kaçınmak (abstain, avoid, balk, baulk, beg, beware, chicken out, dodge, elude, eschew, evade, flee, flee from, flinch, forbear, funk, get out of, keep clear of, refrain, refuse, shirk, shun, sidestep, spare, stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, steer clear of, Stow), kısaltmak (abbreviate, abridge, cancel, clip, compress, curtail, cut down, dock, edit, make shorter, prune, reduce, retrench, shorten, summarize, take up), kısa devre yaptırmak (short), kısa devre (short, shortchange). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | іти напролом, зробити коротке замикання. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mạch chập. (various references) | |
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"Short Circuit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: short circut, short ciruit, shortcircuit. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-h-i-i-o-r-r-s-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: cirrhotics. | |
-3 letters: cirrhotic, touristic. | |
-4 letters: circuits, critturs, historic, orchitic, orchitis, shortcut, thrustor, tristich, truistic. | |
-5 letters: chutist, circuit, cirrous, citrous, critics, crittur, currish, ostrich, outhits, ruttish, scirrhi, soritic, stichic, succoth, tictocs, tourist, tricots, trustor. | |
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