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latchup

latchup is the alternative form of latch-up.

Meaning of latch-up

Noun

latch-up (plural latch-ups)

  1. A kind of short circuit caused by the inadvertent creation of a low-impedance path between the power supply rails of a MOSFET circuit.

Forms of latchup

plurallatchups

Questions about latchup

What is latchup the alternative form of?
Latchup is the alternative form of latch-up.

Words near latchup in the dictionary

  1. latchmen
  2. latchpan
  3. latchpans
  4. latchstring
  5. latchstrings
  6. latchup
  7. latchups
  8. latd.
  9. Latdorfian
  10. latds.
  11. late

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Adapted from Wiktionary: latchup (page history and authors); latch-up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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