What is "shorting"

Usage examples of "shorting".

It examined itself, ascertained that it could reverse the field of the teratron and that shorting the poles would produce a mononuclear sidereal generator.

Without the internal armored bulkheads and cofferdams, the separate, parallel control runs, and redundant circuit breakers of military design, there was little to stop the train wreck of induced component failures, and a chain reaction of shorting, arcing superconductor rings raced through the compartment.

More of his servomotors failed him, shorting out or hopelessly gummed up.

The foam has the added advantage of shorting out any surveillance devices in your shoes.

There was a kind of numbness inside him as if Saigo's cruel intrusion had somehow anaesthetized him, shorting out some spark of current.

Thus, Mi'nella argued, they were producing twenty-year-olds with the minds of newborn babies and the sensory equipment of the adult body—which was sexually complete—the most devasting blew to the confused, blank mind was shorting out the seeking brain of the infant, bringing insanity in the first few moments of life outside the time-ratio chamber.

The alarm bell would be rung by the shorting of any of those wires to earth, as when someone touched them, or by the cutting of any of the wires.

Besides cutting equipment cables up on the bridge, shorting out the engine starter, sabotaging the galley, and deploying his other troops, he had kept his audio system tuned to the mec up on top of the cabinet in the salon in order to listen in on what was happening with Michelle.

When I had begun to despair of ever keeping her running, or ever getting her out of the back yard on her own power, I found that the firing order was wired up wrong, and after fixing that, I found that a lubricant with graphite in it had hardened on the bakelite outside of the distributor cap and some of the impulses were shorting down the outside of the cap.

Much of it was no longer operational due to the shorting out of the electrical cable beneath the chassis, but some parts were still in operation.

He stopped the little engine by shorting the plug with his propelling pencil.

Part of the senseless signaling device within him must have been defective, unless the baking of the clay man had somehow overloaded a part of it, and now it was completely wrecked, shorting aside all the generator control impulses, leaving him unable to move a finger.

Plus the usual fence straddlers who think you can stretch your money by shorting your colonies' reserves.