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— E.E. Cummings

It is said that if the dead who died in the Great

War were placed head to feet, they would stretch

from New York to San Francisco, and from San

Francisco back again to New York; and if those

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short circuit

Part of Speechnoun

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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Synonyms

shortshort out

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Related Words

faultlatch-upleakagebridgelatchupleakloose connection

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