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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

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imp. & p. p.

Short-circuited

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p. pr. & vb. n.

Short-circuiting

(Elec.)

To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance.

See also: shortcircuit and short circuit

short-circuit ‎(third-person singular simple present short-circuits, present participle short-circuiting, simple past and past participle short-circuited)