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gutt-, gutti-, guttu- +
(Latin: drop)
stalac-, stalag-
(Greek > Latin: dropping, dripping; trickling; to drip, to drop, to trickle)
Word Entries containing the term: “drop”
drop phalangette
The falling of the distal (far) phalanx of a digit with loss of power to extend it when the hand is prone. This is due to trauma or over stretching of the extensor tendon.
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voltage drop
1. The voltage difference between any two specific points in a circuit.
2. The voltage developed across a component or conductor by the flow of current through the resistance or impedance of that component or conductor.
3. The decline in voltage in an electrical circuit because of the resistance in the conducting line.

This is why longer electrical runs in a building require thicker gauge wire and why AC power is transmitted over high-voltage lines.

Higher current requires thicker and more expensive wires, but higher voltage does not. The high-voltage lines are reduced by transformers near the end of the line.

This entry is located in the following unit: volt + (page 5)
Word Entries at Get Words containing the term: “drop”
A drop in the bucket (Isaiah 40:15)
"Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing."
This entry is located in the following unit: Bible Quotations used in modern English (page 1)
drop ear, pendant ear, pendulous ear
One of more than thirty terms used to characterize ears, wherein the leather is folded at least to some degree, contrasting to erect or prick ears.
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resistive voltage drop
The voltage developed across a cell by the current flow through the resistance of the cell.
This entry is located in the following unit: Photovoltaic Conversion Efficiency Terms + (page 18)