Definition for
surge
noun – A spring; a fountain; a source of water.
noun – A large wave or billow; a great rolling swell of water; also, such waves or swells collectively: literally or figuratively.
noun – The act of surging, or of heaving in an undulatory manner.
noun – In ship-building, the tapered part in front of the whelps, between the chocks of a capstan, on which a rope may surge.
noun – Any change of barometric level which is not due to the passage of an area of low pressure or to diurnal variation.
noun – In electricity, a sudden rush of current; specifically, the violent oscillations which may occur in alternating-current circuits when the conditions for resonance are fulfilled, or which may be set up in conductors by the inductive action of lightning.
– In electricity, to oscillate violently: said of oscillatory rushes of current.
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