strays

/ (streɪz) /

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Also called: stray capacitance electronics undesired capacitance in equipment, occurring between the wiring, between the wiring and the chassis, or between components and the chassis

telecomm another word for static (def. 9)

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This requires being open to what will actually accomplish this—even if it strays from existing dogma.
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“These poor waifs and strays of humanity had a melancholy ending,” an 1874 New York Times article reads.
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At dawn the next day she strays far out to aPg 156 forest, where she finds a hermit.
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Trim the roots a little, and cut off the strays or runners from each plant.
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No one in the yard knows how the old clock got there,—it probably drifted there, as have so many other waifs and strays.
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I went hungry for fresh beef, and gave those sharks over forty good strays.
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After a change of mounts for the foreman, Dell and the trail boss drifted the strays up the creek.
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