phantom circuit


nounElectricity.
  1. a circuit derived from two suitably arranged pairs of wires, each pair being a circuit (side circuit ) and also acting as one half of an additional derived circuit, the entire system providing the capabilities of three circuits while requiring wires for only two.

Origin of phantom circuit

1
First recorded in 1880–85

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