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☆ lightning arrester

a device that protects electronic or electrical equipment from lightning by diverting any surges of high-voltage electricity caused by atmospheric discharges to a ground

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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