sideflash

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sideflash - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Sideflash \Side"flash`\, n. (Elec.)
     A disruptive discharge between a conductor traversed by an
     oscillatory current of high frequency (as lightning) and
     neighboring masses of metal, or between different parts of
     the same conductor.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]