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overvoltage

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o⋅ver⋅volt⋅age

[oh-ver-vohl-tij]
–noun
1. Electricity. excess voltage.
2. Physics. the amount by which the voltage applied to an ionization chamber exceeds the Geiger-Müller threshold.

Origin:
1905–10; over- + voltage
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