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Brownout
Electrical equipment; Power supplies
A drop in voltage of a power supply, which causes (among other things) the lights to dim.
Insulation system
Electrical equipment; Power supplies
All of the materials used to insulate a particular electrical or electronic product.
Hollow cathode
Electrical equipment; Power supplies
An efficient plasma-emitting device flowing gas through a hollow orifice.
Sustained arc
Electrical equipment; Power supplies
An electrical discharge that lasts much longer than the usual capacitance-discharging arc (on the order of 1 millisecond or longer).
Surge
Electrical equipment; Power supplies
A transient variation in the current and/or potential at a point in the circuit.
Paschen discharge
Electrical equipment; Power supplies
Breakdown of neutral gas in a high electric field.
Semiconductor
Electrical equipment; Power supplies
A solid crystalline material whose electrical conductivity is intermediate between that of insulators and conductors, and is usually applied field and temperature dependent.
