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flashover definition

flash·over (-ō′vər)

noun

an undesired electrical discharge across an insulator, between a high potential and the ground, etc.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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