Cool, til. I guess it is semantic then wether a short is low-resistance or any connection.
Iirc, even the air has a resistance value, so that would imply that all batteries are shorted at all times which doesn’t seem useful for the English language.
A quite reasonable argument could be made that a battery simply sitting around is only connected to one circuit (itself thru the air) and thus there’s not an “unintended” one it’s also connected to that could be considered a short - but really, my unstated point this whole time is that this is not a usefully rigorously defined term. The definition on wikipedia is as close as we’ll get, and it’s extremely broad by it’s nature.
Cool, til. I guess it is semantic then wether a short is low-resistance or any connection.
Iirc, even the air has a resistance value, so that would imply that all batteries are shorted at all times which doesn’t seem useful for the English language.
A quite reasonable argument could be made that a battery simply sitting around is only connected to one circuit (itself thru the air) and thus there’s not an “unintended” one it’s also connected to that could be considered a short - but really, my unstated point this whole time is that this is not a usefully rigorously defined term. The definition on wikipedia is as close as we’ll get, and it’s extremely broad by it’s nature.