Usually means: Unintended, direct electrical path formed.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. short-circuit, short circuit: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. short circuit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. short-circuit, short circuit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. short-circuit, short-circuit, short circuit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. short-circuit, short circuit: Vocabulary.com
  6. Short-circuit, short-circuit, short circuit: Wordnik
  7. short-circuit, short circuit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. short-circuit, short circuit: Wiktionary
  9. short-circuit, short circuit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. short circuit: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. short-circuit, short circuit: Dictionary.com
  12. Short Circuit (short series), Short Circuit (video game), Short Circuit, Short-circuit, Short circuit (disambiguation), Short circuit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Short-circuit, Short circuit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. short-circuit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. short-circuit, short circuit: Rhymezone
  16. Short-circuit, Short circuit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. short-circuit, short circuit: Free Dictionary
  18. short-circuit, short circuit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. short-circuit, short circuit: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Short circuit: Energy Dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Short Circuit (film), Short Circuit (movie), Short circuit (programming), short-circuit, short circuit: Encyclopedia

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. short circuit: Urban Dictionary

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. short circuit: Electronics
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Short circuit: Construction Glossary
  4. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  5. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  6. Reliance Electric motor terms (No longer online)
  7. SHORT CIRCUIT: Power Engineering

(Note: See short_circuiting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (short circuit)

noun:  (electrical engineering) A usually unintentional connection of low resistance or impedance in a circuit such that excessive and often damaging current flows in it.
verb:  (transitive) To cause a short circuit in.
verb:  (intransitive) To undergo a short circuit.
verb:  (transitive, by extension) To force termination of an ongoing process before its natural conclusion, by bypassing one or more intermediary steps.
verb:  (transitive, by extension) To impede or disrupt.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To terminate a loop before the declared termination condition is met, or a conditional before all conditions have been tested for.

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