short circuit

Questions about short circuit

What is another word for short circuit?

It depends which short circuit you mean. In the sense “accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference”, the synonyms are short. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of short circuit?

WordNet records no antonym for short circuit. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for short circuit come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of short circuit

• Full entry for short circuitAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for short circuitWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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