short circuit

Meanings

Noun

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

Verb

• To cause a short circuit in.
• To force termination of an ongoing process before its natural conclusion, by bypassing one or more intermediary steps.
• To terminate a loop before the declared termination condition is met, or a conditional before all conditions have been tested for.

Related

Similar words

• short
• short out

Origin

• short + circuit