MEANING
To supply an electronic component with a voltage below its usual or specified reference level.
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Words that belong together
- undervolt a processor
- an undervolted component
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The engineer undervolted the processor within the tested operating range.
An undervolted component became unreliable before the temperature alarm sounded.
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Word forms
- Base
- undervolt
- Past tense
- undervolted
- Past participle
- undervolted
- Present participle
- undervolting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- undervolt
- Present continuous
- am/is/are undervolting
- Present perfect
- have/has undervolted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been undervolting
- Past
- undervolted
- Past continuous
- was/were undervolting
- Past perfect
- had undervolted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been undervolting
- Future
- will undervolt
- Future continuous
- will be undervolting
- Future perfect
- will have undervolted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been undervolting
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: undervolt; undervolts; undervolted; undervolted; undervolting Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: undervolts.
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