[f. CIRCUIT v. + -ING1.] The making of a circuit or circuits. Short-circuiting, the faulty shortening of an electric circuit, owing to some flaw in the insulation.
1659. C. Noble, Answ. Immod. Queries, To Rdr. 2. The streams tend directly … (though with some seeming circuitings) to the Ocean.
1888. Pall Mall Gaz., 22 March, 1/2. It will be lighted throughout by electricity…. If proper care is exercised in the installation short-circuiting is impossible.
