Usually means: Bypassing normal circuit flow path.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word short-circuit:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. short-circuit: Merriam-Webster
  2. short-circuit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. short-circuit, short-circuit: Collins English Dictionary
  4. short-circuit: Vocabulary.com
  5. Short-circuit, short-circuit: Wordnik
  6. short-circuit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. short-circuit: Wiktionary
  8. short-circuit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. short-circuit: Dictionary.com
  10. Short-circuit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Short-circuit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. short-circuit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. short-circuit: Rhymezone
  14. Short-circuit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. short-circuit: FreeDictionary.org
  16. short-circuit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. short-circuit: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. short-circuit: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Reliance Electric motor terms (No longer online)

(Note: See short-circuited as well.)

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verb:  Alternative spelling of short circuit [(transitive) To cause a short circuit in.]

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