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"(electrical engineering) A usually unintentional connection of low resistance or impedance in a circuit such that excessive and often damaging current flows in it."
],
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"business",
"electrical",
"electrical-engineering",
"electricity",
"electromagnetism",
"energy",
"engineering",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"physics"
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}
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"word": "short"
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"word": "short-circuit"
}
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "karč miacʿum",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"word": "կարճ միացում"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "karótkaje zamykánnje",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "каро́ткае замыка́нне"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kǎ́so sǎedinénie",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "къ́со съедине́ние"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "curtcircuit"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "duǎnlù",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"word": "短路"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "duǎnjiē",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"word": "短接"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
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"word": "kortslutning"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"word": "kurta cirkvito"
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{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"word": "lühis"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"word": "lühiühendus"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"word": "oikosulku"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "court-circuit"
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "moḳle čartva",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"word": "მოკლე ჩართვა"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "moḳle šertva",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"word": "მოკლე შერთვა"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Kurzschluss"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "vrachykýkloma",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "βραχυκύκλωμα"
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"code": "he",
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"sense": "unintentional connection",
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"masculine"
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"word": "קצר"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"word": "rövidzárlat"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"word": "rövidre zárás"
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{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"word": "hubungan pendek"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"word": "korsleting"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"word": "arus pendek"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gearrchiorcad"
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{
"alt": "たんらく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tanraku",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"word": "短絡"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "shōto",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"word": "ショート"
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{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "qysqaşa tūiyqtalu",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"word": "қысқаша тұйықталу"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "syoteu",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"word": "쇼트"
},
{
"alt": "合線",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "hapseon",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"word": "합선"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "kratok spoj",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "краток спој"
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{
"code": "nb",
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"sense": "unintentional connection",
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"masculine"
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"word": "kortslutning"
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"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "kortslutning"
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{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "cortcircuit"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "zwarcie"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "spięcie"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "curto-circuito"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "korótkoje zamykánije",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "коро́ткое замыка́ние"
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"code": "sh",
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"code": "sh",
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"code": "sk",
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"sense": "unintentional connection",
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"word": "skrat"
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"code": "sl",
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"sense": "unintentional connection",
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"masculine"
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"word": "kratki stik"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cortocircuito"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
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"code": "srn",
"lang": "Sranan Tongo",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"word": "syatusroiti"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
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"word": "kortslutning"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"word": "laktod"
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{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "korótke zamykánnja",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "коро́тке замика́ння"
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{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"word": "đoản mạch"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "unintentional connection",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cylched fer"
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"To cause a short circuit in."
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"(transitive) To cause a short circuit in."
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"To undergo a short circuit."
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"(intransitive) To undergo a short circuit."
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"ref": "1998, Catherine Nickerson, The Web of Iniquity",
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"ref": "2002, Jim Kasper, Short Cycle Selling: Beating Your Competitors in the Sales Race",
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"ref": "2003, Gina Hens-Piazza, Nameless, Blameless, and Without Shame: Two Cannibal Mothers Before a King",
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"ref": "2002, Jose Mojico, C# and VB.NET Conversion Pocket Reference",
"text": "If you would like to short-circuit, you must replace \"And\" with the \"AndAlso\" keyword and \"Or\" with the \"OrElse\" keyword, as follows....",
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"text": "2006: Jay Hillard & Stephen Teilhet, C# Cookbook\nThe \"Demand\" is done to ensure that you have indeed been granted this permission before using the \"Assert\" to short-circuit the stackwalk."
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "cause a short circuit",
"word": "kortslutte"
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{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "cause a short circuit",
"word": "lühistama"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "cause a short circuit",
"word": "court-circuiter"
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"sense": "cause a short circuit",
"word": "βραχυκυκλώνω"
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"code": "ga",
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"word": "gearrchiorcad"
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"sense": "cause a short circuit",
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"sense": "cause a short circuit",
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"sense": "cause a short circuit",
"word": "kortsluta"
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