flashover in English

noun
1
a high-voltage electric short circuit made through the air between exposed conductors.
The insulator structure may reduce the occurrence of flashovers to and from the gate lines and emitters when the field emitter device is used in a display.
2
an instance of a fire spreading very rapidly across a gap because of intense heat.
Minutes after they escaped, there was a fire flashover and the whole building went up in flames.

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1. Insulator should withstand power frequency voltage, switchingvoltage and lightning impulse voltage, shouldn't flashover under pollution.

2. The Arresters provide a preferred path between line and ground, guarding against insulator flashover

3. Reflux of electron of high voltage vacuum diode is one of the main factors to cause the dielectric surface flashover.

4. The discharge at the top of icicle is one of the main factors influencing flashover voltage when the air gap amid the sheds of ice-covered insulators is not bridged.

5. Bitting‚ 29‚ a career firefighter with the Keokuk Fire Department‚ died on December 22‚ 1999‚ when a flashover trapped him and two other firefighters as they tried to rescue children from a structure fire