voltage drop

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   a decrease in voltage along a conductor through which current is flowing

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Questions about voltage drop

What does voltage drop mean?

voltage drop means "a decrease in voltage along a conductor through which current is flowing".

Is voltage drop a common word?

voltage drop is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.