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unshorting

unshorting is the present participle and gerund of unshort.

Meaning of unshort

Verb

unshort (third-person singular simple present unshorts, present participle unshorting, simple past and past participle unshorted)

  1. (transitive) To remove a short circuit from.
    • Unshort the wires, and give the whole circuit a final test.1954, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, Gunner's Mate 1 & C, page 460

Questions about unshorting

What is unshorting the present participle and gerund of?
Unshorting is the present participle and gerund of unshort.

Words near unshorting in the dictionary

  1. unshorten
  2. unshortenable
  3. unshortened
  4. unshortening
  5. unshortens
  6. unshorting
  7. unshorts
  8. unshot
  9. unshots
  10. unshotted
  11. unshotting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unshorting (page history and authors); unshort (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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