open circuit

Noun

Meaning

an incomplete electrical circuit in which no current flows

Source: WordNet

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open-circuit

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At increasing frequency, on the other hand, the reactance increases and at a sufficiently high frequency the inductor approaches an open circuit. Source: Internet

Apart from testing the open circuit voltage of the thermocouple, and the near short-circuit DC continuity through the thermocouple gas valve coil, the easiest non-specialist test is substitution of a known good gas valve. Source: Internet

Although he coined the most common English word used for autonomous open circuit diving equipment, Lambertsen did not invent that equipment. Source: Internet

During the 1940s, Cousteau is credited with improving the aqua-lung design which gave birth to the open-circuit scuba technology used today. Source: Internet

However its large inductance gives it a very high impedance at the resonant frequency, so it acts as an open circuit to the oscillating current. Source: Internet

In Britain the word aqualung, used for any demand-valve-controlled open-circuit scuba set, still continues to be used nowadays; in old times it was sometimes inaccurately for any scuba set including rebreathers. Source: Internet

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