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Word: short circuit
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Meaning:
Noun:
- An unintentional connection of low resistance or impedance in a circuit such that excessive and often damaging current flows in it.
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Verb:
- by extension to force termination of an ongoing process before its natural conclusion by bypassing one or more intermediary steps
- computing to terminate a loop before the declared termination condition is met or a conditional before all conditions have been tested for
- transitive to cause a short circuit in
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