Shorting
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Shorting is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of short.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of short.
More Meanings
- short selling
- short circuit; outage
Example Sentences
[…] rotted and cracked, and occasionally the water would seep through to the bare wires and cause shortings and electric fires.
Being “free surface” it made the rolling linger longer at the extremes, and it was this lingering that was causing the shortings and the blackouts to last longer.
There was a signal station, an old Italian military relic, the equipment in it so dangerous, due to electrical shortings, that the Italian soldier who looked after it used to pray before he used it.
Word Forms
- shortings
Related Words
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