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Meaning of Shorting | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

  1. short selling
  2. short circuit; outage

Equivalents

العربية التقليل
Suomi shorttaus
Polski spięcie

Examples

“[…] rotted and cracked, and occasionally the water would seep through to the bare wires and cause shortings and electric fires.”
“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.”
“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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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