restrikingn.
/ˌriːˈstrʌɪkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌriˈstraɪkɪŋ/ The action or process of restrike v.; an instance of this.
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1834 Athenæum 31 May 416/3 The die becomes so hard by compression, as to require frequent annealing and re-striking before it is perfected.
1891 Rep. Supreme Court Georgia 87 402 After a jury has been stricken to try a cause, it is not error to refuse to allow a restriking.
1907 National Electric Light Assoc. 30th Convent. I. 245 The cutout causes the restriking of the arc.
1917 Musical Times 58 393 Rubinstein has tried to solve the problem by an occasional re-striking of the note.
2002 Mag. Antiques (Nexis) July 82 In 1861 the mint was enlarged and given greater legal status, which coincided with..the restriking of earlier congressional medals for sale to the public at large.
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restriking voltage n. Electrical Engineering the voltage formed across two electrodes in an a.c. circuit at zero current and during the subsequent extinction of an arc between them, causing (if sufficiently high) the restriking of the arc; spec. that across the contacts of a circuit breaker, switch, etc., after they are separated.
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restriking voltage1930
1930 F. C. Todd & T. E. Browne in Physical Rev. 36 734 For the zinc arc, the restriking voltage is 280 volts.
1951 Brit. Jrnl. Appl. Physics 2 173/1 It is possible that the already initiated arc will be interrupted at a current zero, owing to the insufficiency of the available restriking voltage.
2004 A. Wright & P. G. Newbery Electric Fuses (ed. 3) iii. 56 The gap produced by burnback is long enough to withstand the restriking voltage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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