English Explanatory Dictionary

side flash

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A disruptive electrical discharge between a conductor traversed by an oscillatory current of high frequency (such as lightning) and neighbouring masses of metal, or between different parts of the same conductor.
verb
  1. Of electricity: to create a side flash.

Word forms

side flash side flashes side-flash sideflash side flashing side flashed
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