Short-circuit Sentence Examples

One of these may have developed an internal short circuit.

The syringe pump was found to have a fault caused by an electrical short circuit.

It does not require costly short-circuit protection for a short circuit between supply voltages.

Even though they struggle with the desires, these people are victims of a short-circuit in their coping mechanisms making it impossible to resist the drive to eat themselves into oblivion.

This happens when strong emotions threaten to overwhelm them, their brains short-circuit and force them to eat to dull the pain.

The reversing key K having been put over to the left side, the short-circuit key S is suddenly opened; this inserts the resistance R, which has been suitably adjusted before hand, and thus reduces the current and therefore the magnetizing force to a known value.

In 1835 he combined the short circuit of his monster magnet (of 1834) with the small "intensity" magnet of an experimental telegraph wire, thereby establishing the fact that very powerful mechanical effects could be produced at a great distance by the agency of a very feeble magnet used as a circuit maker and breaker, or as a "trigger" - the precursor of later forms of relay and receiving magnets.

The maximum torque M K is effective in the case of short circuit.

Stealth bombers in the Ministry were busy helping their mates into a back door route to short-circuit the scrutiny process.

The changing nature of electrical installations is reducing their natural impedance, so that higher short-circuit currents occur.

Only today someone rang the place where I work to ask an acquaintance of hers about how to short-circuit the system.

The Ada language provides the special operators and then and or else so that the programmer can specify short-circuit evaluation.

The exclude patterns actually short-circuit the directory traversal stage when rsync finds the files to send.

The galvanometer which is used for ballistic observations should have a somewhat heavy needle with a period of vibration of not less than five seconds, so that the transient current may have ceased before the swing has well begun; an instrument of the d'Arsonval form is recommended, not only because it is unaffected by outside magnetic influence, but also because the moving part can be instantly brought to rest by means of a short-circuit key, thus effecting a great saving of time when a series of observations is being made.

The short-circuit rating of equipment must be higher than the prospective fault current at the position where the equipment is installed.

A minor brachial plexus injury can be a stretched nerve that results in a short-circuit in a few of the nerve fibers, causing temporary paralysis.

This loss of myelin can short circuit nerve impulses (messages) and interrupt cell communication.

Interfering unnecessarily can lengthen this process or even short-circuit it altogether, creating lingering resentment between your established pets and the newly adopted cat.