breakdown voltage

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the minimum applied voltage that would cause a given insulator or electrode to break down.

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

First recorded in 1910–15

The breakdown of the 114th Congress is 80 percent white, 80 percent male, and 92 percent Christian.
The Unbearable Whiteness of Congress|Dean Obeidallah|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Truth be told, there is no one better at capturing the agony and alarm of a woman in the throes of a nervous breakdown than Moore.
Julianne Moore Is Oscar Gold in ‘Still Alice’|Marlow Stern|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
No other neighborhood in Rome has the same demographic breakdown.
In Rome’s Riots, Cries for Mussolini and Attacks on Refugees|Barbie Latza Nadeau|November 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She remembers, of course, being tantalized by the tantalizing opening breakdown scene.
Eliza Coupe Finds Her ‘Happy Ending’ With ‘Benched’|Kevin Fallon|October 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST

So definitely in that breakdown I used every bit of my personal life.
Eliza Coupe Finds Her ‘Happy Ending’ With ‘Benched’|Kevin Fallon|October 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Assuredly, this was an occasion when the sacrifice of a few minutes might avoid the grave risk of a breakdown after daybreak.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
A coward by nature, he had been on the verge of a nervous breakdown before the trial, thinking of what might happen.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
He had been ailing for several weeks; as his son had remarked, his handwriting had been the first symptom of the breakdown.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume II (of 3)|Charles James Wills
It was a complete breakdown, pitiful from its contrast with the man's herculean physique and fine, if contracted, features.
The Circular Study|Anna Katharine Green
They were difficult to kill, and it required the maximum voltage of our electric guns to bring them down.
Spacewrecked on Venus|Neil R. Jones