short-contact switch

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short-contact switch [′shȯrt ¦kän‚tak ‚swich]

(electricity)

Selector switch in which the width of the movable contact is greater than the distance between contact clips, so that the new circuit is contacted before the old one is broken; this avoids noise during switching.

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