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Flashover

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Noun

1. flashover

an unintended electric discharge (as over or around an insulator)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Flashover

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noun
1. 
an electric discharge over or around the surface of an insulator
2. 
the sudden and rapid spread of fire through the air, caused by the ignition of smoke or fumes from surrounding objects

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Flashover

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noun
an undesired electrical discharge across an insulator, between a high potential and the ground, etc.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Flashover

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n.
1. An unintended electric arc, as between two pieces of apparatus.
2. The temperature point at which the heat in an area is high enough to ignite all flammable material simultaneously.

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