Word Meanings - SHORT-CIRCUIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Related words: (words related to SHORT-CIRCUIT)

• DYNAMO
  A dynamo-electric machine.
• DYNAMOMETRY
  The art or process of measuring forces doing work.
• DYNAMOMETER
  An apparatus for measuring force or power; especially, muscular effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor, or that required to operate machinery. Note: It usually embodies a spring to be compressed or weight to be sustained by
• CIRCUITOUS
  Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accompalishing an end. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ness, n. Syn. -- Tortuous; winding; sinuous; serpentine.
• DYNAMO-ELECTRIC
  Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power.
• CIRCUITY
  A going round in a circle; a course not direct; a roundabout way of proceeding.
• POINTSMAN
  A man who has charge of railroad points or switches.
• CIRCUITER
  One who travels a circuit, as a circuit judge. R. Whitlock.
• CONDUCTOR
  The leader or director of an orchestra or chorus. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director. Zeal, the blind conductor of the will. Dryden. 2. One in charge of a public conveyance, as
• DYNAMOGRAPH
  A dynamometer to which is attached a device for automatically registering muscular power.
• RESISTANCE
  The quality of not yielding to force or external pressure; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; as, the resistance of the air to a body passing through
• CIRCUIT
  1. The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun. Watts. 2. The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area.
• RESISTANCE FRAME
  A rheostat consisting of an open frame on which are stretched spirals of wire. Being freely exposed to the air, they radiate heat rapidly.
• CONDUCTORY
  Having the property of conducting.
• DYNAMOMETRIC; DYNAMOMETRICAL
  Relating to a dynamometer, or to the measurement of force doing work; as, dynamometrical instruments.
• CIRCUITION
  The act of going round; circumlocution.
• CIRCUITEER
  A circuiter. Pope.
• BATTERY
  The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him. Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for attack or
• UNRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
• BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
  See BURNER
• SERIES DYNAMO
  A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others.
• HEMADYNAMOMETER
  An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury; -- called also a hæmomanometer.
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• DIDYNAMOUS
  Of or pertaining to the Didynamia; containing four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.
• SPLIT DYNAMOMETER
  An electric dynamometer having two coils so arranged that one carries the primary current, and the other the secondary current, of a transformer.
• TETRADYNAMIAN; TETRADYNAMOUS
  Belonging to the order Tetradynamia; having six stamens, four of which are uniformly longer than the others.
• TRANSMISSION DYNAMOMETER
  A dynamometer in which power is measured, without being absorbed or used up, during transmission.
• RADIOCONDUCTOR
  A substance or device that has its conductivity altered in some way by electric waves, as a coherer.
• MYODYNAMOMETER
  An instrument for measuring the muscular strength of man or of other animals; a dynamometer. Dunglison.