Sneak current

created by Webster 1913
(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Thu Feb 02 2006 at 6:12:30

Sneak current. (Elec.)

A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out.

 

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