open circuit

noun Electricity.

a discontinuous circuit through which no current can flow.

Compare closed circuit.

Origin of open circuit

First recorded in 1820–30

OTHER WORDS FROM open circuit

open-circuit, adjective

Words nearby open circuit

opencast mining, open chain, open chain compound, open cheque, open chest massage, open circuit, open circuit method, open city, open classroom, open cluster, Open College

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Example sentences from the Web for open circuit

A dry battery will do, but if you use the sounder much, an open-circuit battery will soon use itself up.
How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus|Thomas M. (Thomas Matthew) St. John
Some forms of wet battery work in the same way as the dry battery, and are used like-wise for open-circuit work.
The Story of Great Inventions|Elmer Ellsworth Burns
The drop or relay controls a local circuit composed of an open-circuit battery and an ordinary vibrating bell.
The Boy Mechanic, Book 2|Various
Then we reason that there is an open-circuit between F and G.
Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son|John Mills

The chemicals that are used are usually different from those used in the open-circuit batteries and are much stronger.
ABC of Electricity|William Henry Meadowcroft

British Dictionary definitions for open circuit

open circuit

noun

an incomplete electrical circuit in which no current flowsCompare closed circuit

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Scientific definitions for open circuit

open circuit

[ ō′pən ]

An electric circuit in which the normal path of current has been interrupted, either by the disconnection of one part of its conducting pathway from another, or by the intervention of an electric component, such as a transistor. Compare closed circuit.

单词	open circuit
释义	open circuit noun Electricity. a discontinuous circuit through which no current can flow. Compare closed circuit. Origin of open circuit First recorded in 1820–30 OTHER WORDS FROM open circuit open-circuit, adjective Words nearby open circuit opencast mining, open chain, open chain compound, open cheque, open chest massage, open circuit, open circuit method, open city, open classroom, open cluster, Open College Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for open circuit A dry battery will do, but if you use the sounder much, an open-circuit battery will soon use itself up. How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus\|Thomas M. (Thomas Matthew) St. John Some forms of wet battery work in the same way as the dry battery, and are used like-wise for open-circuit work. The Story of Great Inventions\|Elmer Ellsworth Burns The drop or relay controls a local circuit composed of an open-circuit battery and an ordinary vibrating bell. The Boy Mechanic, Book 2\|Various Then we reason that there is an open-circuit between F and G. Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son\|John Mills The chemicals that are used are usually different from those used in the open-circuit batteries and are much stronger. ABC of Electricity\|William Henry Meadowcroft British Dictionary definitions for open circuit open circuit noun an incomplete electrical circuit in which no current flowsCompare closed circuit Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Scientific definitions for open circuit open circuit [ ō′pən ] An electric circuit in which the normal path of current has been interrupted, either by the disconnection of one part of its conducting pathway from another, or by the intervention of an electric component, such as a transistor. Compare closed circuit. The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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