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FLASHOVER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does flashover mean?
• FLASHOVER (noun)
The noun FLASHOVER has 1 sense:
1. an unintended electric discharge (as over or around an insulator)
Familiarity information: FLASHOVER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An unintended electric discharge (as over or around an insulator)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("flashover" is a kind of...):
arc; discharge; electric arc; electric discharge; spark (electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field)
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