short circuit

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  A usually unintentional connection of low resistance or impedance in a circuit such that excessive and often damaging current flows in it.

Translations

 * Armenian: կարճ միացում
 * Belarusian: каро́ткае замыка́нне
 * Bulgarian: къ́со съедине́ние
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: zkrat
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kurta cirkvito
 * Estonian: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: მოკლე ჩართვა, მოკლე შერთვა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:, rövidre zárás
 * Indonesian: hubungan pendek,, arus pendek
 * Irish: gearrchiorcad
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: қысқаша тұйықталу
 * Korean:, 합선(合線)
 * Macedonian: краток спој
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: kortslutning
 * Nynorsk: kortslutning
 * Occitan:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кратки спој
 * Roman: kratki spoj
 * Slovak: skrat
 * Slovene: kratki stik
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sranan Tongo: syatusroiti
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: laktod
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian: коро́тке замика́ння
 * Vietnamese: đoản mạch
 * Welsh: cylched fer

Verb

 * 1)  To cause a short circuit in.
 * 2)  To undergo a short circuit.
 * 3)  To force termination of an ongoing process before its natural conclusion, by bypassing one or more intermediary steps.
 * 4)  To impede or disrupt.
 * 5)  To terminate a loop before the declared termination condition is met, or a conditional before all conditions have been tested for.
 * 6) * 2006: Jay Hillard &amp; Stephen Teilhet, C# Cookbook
 * The "Demand" is done to ensure that you have indeed been granted this permission before using the "Assert" to short-circuit the stackwalk.
 * 1)  To terminate a loop before the declared termination condition is met, or a conditional before all conditions have been tested for.
 * 2) * 2006: Jay Hillard &amp; Stephen Teilhet, C# Cookbook
 * The "Demand" is done to ensure that you have indeed been granted this permission before using the "Assert" to short-circuit the stackwalk.
 * 1) * 2006: Jay Hillard &amp; Stephen Teilhet, C# Cookbook
 * The "Demand" is done to ensure that you have indeed been granted this permission before using the "Assert" to short-circuit the stackwalk.
 * The "Demand" is done to ensure that you have indeed been granted this permission before using the "Assert" to short-circuit the stackwalk.

Usage notes

 * Senses 3 and 4 usually use the hyphenated spelling short-circuit.

Translations

 * Danish: kortslutte
 * Estonian:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Irish: gearrchiorcad
 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: kortslutte
 * Polish:, zewrzeć
 * Portuguese: curto-circuitar
 * Slovak: spôsobiť skrat
 * Swedish: