short circuit

Meanings

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

1. To cause a short circuit in.
2. To undergo a short circuit.
3. To force termination of an ongoing process before its natural conclusion, by bypassing one or more intermediary steps.
4. To impede or disrupt.
5. To bypass, especially by overhastiness.
6. To terminate a loop before the declared termination condition is met, or a conditional before all conditions have been tested for.

Etymology

short + circuit